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Legal and ethical guidelines have struggled to keep up with the pace of neural organoid research. Concerned neuroscientists and bioethicists are calling for changes.

Transplanting human gastric organoids engineered to release insulin in diabetic mice reduced hyperglycemia, offering a therapeutic avenue for type 1 diabetes.

With the shrinking federal funding landscape, academics look to embrace industry collaborations. How does one build impactful partnerships?

Merging data, diet, and design, this postdoc transforms research into action for heart health.

The 2025 government shutdown has halted grants, delayed research, and risks long-term damage to innovation, education, and the US’s global scientific competitiveness.

Researchers discovered how human astroviruses bind to a receptor on human cells at a molecular level, which could inform new preventive and therapeutic strategies.

This postdoc’s research merges clinical insight and technology to make diabetes care more human, connected, and effective.

Noise as loud as 85 to 100 decibels over time led to irreversible motor defects and loss of dopamine neurons in a mouse model of pre-symptomatic Parkinson’s disease.

The incidence of bloodstream infections may differ significantly across populations. Failure to account for these factors may lead to inaccurate projections. 

Antibiotic use in farm animals helps mitigate foodborne illness but contributes to antibiotic resistance. Small, bacteria-targeting peptides could solve both problems.

Researchers set a new world record for the fastest DNA sequencing, completing a whole genome in under four hours—a breakthrough with potential for faster, targeted care.