By scrutinizing gene expression profiles instead of individual oncogenes, Todd Golub launched a powerful platform for diagnosing, classifying, and treating cancer.
Research into how the brain suffers as a result of chemotherapy is revealing potential avenues for ameliorating cognitive decline.
Scientists are using genetic techniques to target diseases that affect how we see, hear, smell, taste, and feel.
Microbes affect weight loss; dozens of cancer-linked genes identified; a climate change scientists speaks out about personal attacks; isolation among elderly linked to death
Researchers identify a protein involved in the chromosomal disorder that could explain its characteristic learning deficits.
A presidential bioethics commission lays out the framework for testing the anthrax vaccine in children.
Next-generation sequencing diagnostics are already being used, and patients are ready.
Disgruntled Nobel loser sues; brain trauma researchers search for biomarker of a chronic condition; receptor for novel coronavirus found; the rise of transcriptomics; and ethical oversight of participant-led research
Researchers identify the target protein of a recently discovered human coronavirus, shedding light on infection and possible interspecies spread.
Tailoring ethical oversight to participant-led research
The prominent researcher has been put on administrative leave pending an investigation into unspecified allegations.
The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change.
The US Senate narrowly approved the politician, who does not have a science background.
Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.
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