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Suppressing the natural age-related increase in neuronal excitation lengthens the lives of worms, and there are indications that the same may be true for mice and humans.

My lab has developed a protocol to easily assess the specificity of antibodies—and hopefully stem some of the reproducibility crisis.

Whistleblowers allege the institute intended to commercialize a research tool based on the material, a violation of agreements with African scientists who collected the sequences.

Signatories of the declaration say the need for governments to act on human-driven climate change is too urgent to stay silent.

The move will allow the Belgium-headquartered biopharmaceutical giant to boost its work on treatments for rare diseases.

According to a new study, active participation in lab discussions from more senior lab members is positively linked to grad students’ abilities.

Small RNAs called piRNAs provide a first line of defense against the viruses.

A genomic analysis from 23andMe suggests that people inherit two copies of a chromosome from only one parent nearly twice as often as researchers had realized.

Graduate students at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras campus have issued a public statement denouncing their institution over late payments for teaching and research assistants.

The FDA recently cleared the way for marketing of the genetically modified product. Texas A&M’s Keerti Rathore speaks with The Scientist about why and how it was developed.

Collagen inside ankles has more turnover than that in hips, thanks to the action of microRNAs.

A new analysis finds that black scientists tend to propose projects that have lower rates of funding from the National Institutes of Health than other fields.