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The treatment, Trikafta, increases lung function in most patients with the disease—but comes with a hefty price tag.

The small molecule is effective in tomato and wheat in laboratory trials, but its scalability and applicability to real-world agriculture remains to be seen.

A new study suggests that growing in a stressful environment prevents “brains-in-a-dish” from growing in the same way as their in vivo counterparts.

The animals showed changes in both slow wave and rapid eye movement sleep.

An early-stage, blood-based assay shows potential as a method for sorting patients with suspected TB from those with other respiratory illnesses.

New, unpublished results show some of the cells produce new neurons for up to 90 days, much longer than a previously identified set of neural stem cells that only generate neurons for a month or two.

Children with acute flaccid myelitis are more likely to have antibodies against the viral family in their spinal fluid than are children without the illness.

The publishing giant will likely survive the latest boycott by scientists. An overhaul is needed to make science publishing fair and open.

In demonstrations in cell lines, the technique has a similar efficacy to CRISPR-Cas9, but fewer off-target effects.

Regional differences in wealth in the UK are tied to genetic variants related to education—and migration is only widening the gap.

Scientists previously thought cortical neurons remained silent during delta waves, but new evidence from rats shows some cells fire in a pattern reflective of memorizing a task.

The research, led by Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov, has not led to the birth of gene-edited babies—yet.