Although scientists debate the ethics of deliberately infecting volunteers with SARS-CoV-2, plenty of consenting participants have been exposed to all sorts of pathogens in prior trials.

The company behind a now-discredited study on hydroxychloroquine also posted a report that has been cited by Latin American governments recommending ivermectin as a possible coronavirus treatment. Clinicians there say the effects have been extremely damaging.

More than five years after his arrest, Li Ning of China Agricultural University is convicted of stealing nearly $5 million of grant money.

Many preclinical studies carried out in vivo are poorly designed and generate irreproducible data, but efforts to address the problem are on the rise.

A case in which the University of Florida killed birds to protect crop research raises questions on the ethics of field studies’ potential side effects.

A recent toast to James Watson highlights a tolerance for bigotry many want excised from the scientific community.

A painting of the woman who was the source of HeLa cells will be on view at the National Portrait Gallery beginning May 15.

The physician-scientist recruited future Nobel Prize winners to build the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas into a first-rate institution. 

The Chilean government contends that the remains of a mummified fetus, recently sequenced by US researchers, were exhumed illegally.