Multiple prestigious US biomedical research awards have rarely or never been granted to a scientist with Asian ancestry, illustrating racial bias within American research societies and institutions, a researcher argues.

David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research on the ion channels involved in perceiving heat, cold, pain, and touch.

This year’s winners are Dieter Oesterhelt, Peter Hegemann, Karl Deisseroth, Drew Weissman, Katalin Karikó, and David Baltimore.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute appoints 33 new researchers, each of whom will receive roughly $9 million over seven years.

A full beard can absorb nearly 40 percent of the shock from a punch to the face, according to one winning study.

Biomedical awards from the past 50 years reveal a gender imbalance, but it appears to be improving.

This year’s winners are C. David Allis, Michael Grunstein, John Glen, and Joan Steitz.

The organization says it’s working on a policy.

Alzheimer’s researcher John Hardy calls the departure “an unmitigated disaster” for science and healthcare in Britain.

Among this year’s winners are a geneticist who revealed how plants respond to shade and a group of physicists who mapped the universe’s background radiation.

The Nobel Prize may garner the most attention, but there are other biomedical awards at least as lucrative.

Awards of $3 million each go to five researchers in the life sciences, recognizing their pioneering work on autophagy, DNA-damage response, Wnt signaling, and more.

Winners in the Physiology or Medicine category are trending older, even though they’re completing their award-winning research when they are about the same age, according to an analysis.

Studies on the sex lives of rats and the personality of rocks are among the projects celebrated this year.

The “Sentinels of Science” award recognizes especially productive peer reviewers.

Discoveries involving a key cellular oxygen-sensing pathway and hepatitis C virus replication are among those recognized with awards from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation this year.

This year’s awards honor discoveries on brain plasticity and the development of atomic force microscopy.

Caltech’s Frances Arnold is honored for her work on directed evolution.

DNA-damage response and cancer immunotherapy discoveries are among those recognized by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation this year.