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A Florida teenager is the first person with a confirmed infection by the mosquito-borne virus.

Nearly 600 signatories, including four Nobel Prize winners, urge openness about animal experiments.

The now-extinct gibbon was buried with the grandmother of China’s first emperor and her many pets.

In the largest-ever study of its kind, researchers combined genomic data from nearly 900,000 patients and healthy individuals to identify commonalities among 10 mental illnesses.

The primate was famous for her ability to communicate with humans.

Celeste Kidd and Steven Piantadosi had sued the university over its handling of sexual harassment allegations made against colleague Florian Jaeger.

Scientists engineered human cells to produce a molecule that stimulates insulin secretion in the presence of caffeine.

The stem cell–derived transplants were stable for 24 months and led to wide-ranging behavioral improvements in the monkeys.  

Preliminary data from Sarepta Therapeutics has exceeded expectations, causing a surge in company stock prices this week.

The new technique uses an enzyme found in vertebrate immune systems to attach nucleotides to a growing strand.  

Some scientists are not yet convinced that the list is accurate.