Physician Peter Gøtzsche, a board member of the organization, has been an outspoken critic of certain vaccines and of the pharma industry in general.

With a built-in supply of a powerful cocaine-chomping enzyme, the transplant might also curb addiction.

The awards for comical but practical scientific discovery also include cannibalism and self-colonoscopy.

The hybrid cells promote tumor heterogeneity and possible metastasis, a new study in mice and humans shows.

Lab mice suffering from inexplicable renal failure turn out to be infected with a hitherto unknown virus.

The researchers catalogued 3,893 variants of the gene implicated in cancer using CRISPR.

The 51-year-old University of Cape Town researcher had been suffering from depression, and his death has prompted reflection on being a black academic in South Africa.

A gene responsible for the free-moving, primitive nature of fetal cells is expressed in some breast cancer cells in mice and humans.

Boosting both neurogenesis and a brain-derived growth factor can mimic the cognitive benefits of exercise in a mouse mode of Alzheimer’s disease.