The Nutshell

Celeste Kidd and Steven Piantadosi had sued the university over its handling of sexual harassment allegations made against colleague Florian Jaeger.

The company’s announcement comes weeks after enrollment was suspended.

A small study based on circulating RNA in the blood of moms-to-be describes a technique that could be used to help predict who’s most at risk of preterm labor.

The UCLA researcher was lauded for figuring out how ATP synthase works.

A security researcher found the email addresses and encrypted passwords of more than 92 million users of the genealogy site on a private server outside the company.

They may be a prospective source for an influenza pandemic, researchers warn.  

Compared with their urban counterparts, babies and toddlers in rural Nigeria have gut microbiota that more closely resembles that of adults in their community.

Luna DNA, Nebula Genomics, and other “bio-brokers” will allow customers to make money by granting access to their genetic and personal information for research purposes.

The immunotherapy eliminated a woman’s metastatic lesions and kept her disease-free for two years.

Merck’s Keytruda extended the lives of lung cancer patients by several months and appeared to stop the progression of advanced melanoma.  

The move by Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center follows an investigative news report detailing surgical errors and poor research practices.

The paper’s authors say bias may nevertheless be present in other steps of the granting process.

The test can pick up several types of cancer, including pancreatic and ovarian, years before symptoms appear.

Nutrient-rich water helped marine organisms reinhabit Chicxulub crater relatively quickly after the mass-extinction event.

Doctors treated the fetus, who has alpha thalassemia major, with cells from her mother’s bone marrow.

The World Health Organization predicts the number of cases in Democratic Republic of Congo will rise up to 300 by July.  

Specialists from the state’s Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks are working to determine what creature a rancher shot and killed.

Complications during pregnancy may act via the placenta to magnify the effects of genetic risk factors.

An uproar over the university’s handling of sexual misconduct accusations led to C.L. Max Nikias’s resignation.