regulatory processes

This year’s crop of winning products features many with a clinical focus and others that represent significant advances in sequencing, single-cell analysis, and more.

A narrow Senate vote ends a 13-month period during which the agency has lacked a permanent commissioner.

The US Food and Drug Administration has called for a federal investigation of its own regulatory review process after widespread criticism of its decision on Aduhelm.

A long way into the quest to vanquish cancer, our ears strain to hear the words, “Cancer is cured”—a yearning that can cloud our judgment.

Risks that pertain to all manner of new crops are often misattributed to genetic engineering. This distorts the public’s view of the technology.

It will be more than a year before the agency institutes or rejects the controversial changes proposed by former EPA head Scott Pruitt.

Meet some of the people featured in the April 2016 issue of The Scientist.

Like cancer, ecological scourges result from the breakdown of regulatory processes, and may be treated with similar logic.

In the introduction to the book, author Sean B. Carroll draws the parallels between ecological and physiological maladies.