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The three-month moratorium comes after a former prion researcher was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

If confirmed, the findings indicate that animals appeared on Earth millions of years earlier than previously believed.

A recent sampling from two California streams found nearly all juvenile salmon were infected with deadly parasites, and conditions are expected to worsen.

The US Food and Drug Administration has called for a federal investigation of its own regulatory review process after widespread criticism of its decision on Aduhelm.

The scientists were arrested last summer for allegedly hiding or falsifying information about their affiliations with the Chinese military.

In a first, patients who hadn’t been treated with antifungals were found to carry Candida auris impervious to all three available classes of the drugs.

The AlphaFold program from AI firm DeepMind has amassed a huge database of protein structures from humans and model organisms.

A study looks beyond T and B cell responses to show how the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine elicits a strong innate immune response.

The relatively new technique for visually detecting chromosomal variants associated with disease risk performs at least as well as more established techniques in two recent studies.

Spontaneous waves of nerve impulses flowing across the retina help mouse pups practice motion detection for when they eventually open their eyes.

A light-sensitive gene involved in regulating the body clock may also influence mood, mediating the effect of light.

The temporary loss of olfaction stops the flies from eating any more of whatever it is that made them sick.