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NIDA pharmacologist Michael Baumann explains how “unscrupulous vendors” hijacked compounds used in neuroscience and turned them into dangerous drugs.

It took an international group of researchers 13 years to crack the code and their efforts are already bearing fruit—one study has pinned down the genes responsible for wheat allergies and sensitivity.

The agency proposes ceding its scrutiny of these studies to the FDA.

The plan would move two scientific branches out of Washington, DC, by 2019.

Data don’t support many direct-to-consumer products, from telomere assessments to bespoke diets based on genetic sequences.

A 99-million-year-old beetle preserved in amber alongside grains of pollen likely pollinated prehistoric plants.

Scientists and advocacy groups criticize new guidelines that could exclude some academic studies during toxicity reviews.

Sulfoxaflor, an alternative insect-killer to older chemicals that decimate pollinators, turns out to kneecap colonies.

Climate change may open up new habitats suitable for the virus’s spread.

A double gene-transfer therapy transformed the non-neuronal cells into rod photoreceptors in the retinas of animal models of congenital blindness.

DNA damage kick-starts what was once a defunct duplicated gene, which kills off injured cells.

A small, in vitro study concludes that e-cigarette vapor harms macrophages taken from human lung tissue.