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Compared with cells taken from non-autistic controls, neural precursors from autistic boys proliferated in atypical ways, a small study finds.

The ACTIV-6 trial reports that people who took the drug for three days may have spent slightly less time feeling unwell with SARS-CoV-2, but fails to find differences in disease progression between the treatment and placebo groups.

Delivering antioxidants via extracellular vesicles to atrophied muscles restores them during rehabilitation.

Researchers are turning to the immune system for help in treating addiction and preventing overdose.

The molecular biologist studies how chemical modifications to RNA building blocks change the way RNA regulates complex cellular processes.

Researchers in Japan have given a plastic robot finger a layered coating made from actual, living skin cells. Next, they aim to add hair and sweat glands.

Testing in animals and lab-grown cells suggests the experimental drug could enhance the function of lysosomes within cells.

A study yields insights into how predator-prey dynamics may shift with climate change, but many questions remain.

Five women who recently graduated from the institution allege that it failed to protect students from repeated sexual harassment by animal behavior professor Michael Noonan.

Analyses of bones found across the world suggest that the birds entered human settlements more recently than previously thought. But they don’t seem to have immediately made their way to the table, raising questions as to why people started keeping them.

Two strains of monkeypox have been detected in the US, suggesting the virus has been circulating in the country for some time, the CDC says.