Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

When recombinant DNA expert Herbert Boyer, Ph.D., first got a call from venture capitalist Robert Swanson about starting a company, the savvy scientist wasn’t sure a meeting would be worth his time | ...

A planned EO that would have greatly enhanced White House influence over grants at the NIH is “looking dead,” a source said.

Bees play a crucial role in pollinating plants, but soaring temperatures can put them under stress. Here’s how to make your backyard a cooling bee-friendly oasis.

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

Following the removal of five scientists from its annual conference in June, members of the American Diabetes Association have launched a boycott of the organization that includes halting the revie | ...

Newly obtained records indicate health secretary lied about Samoa trip during Senate confirmation hearings last year A senior Democratic senator is calling for a criminal investigation into the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, following reporting by the Guardian that indicated he lied during Senate confirmation hearings last year. Ron Wyden of Oregon said: “RFK’s platform is built on lies and grifts that leave a trail of dead children in their wake. There are consequences for lying to Congress.” Continue reading...

Mutations found in Colombian families raised hopes for treatments. Altered patient data and suspect images call their benefits into question

While Abdul El-Sayed released a video overstating his speed to endorse Kamala Harris, Haley Stevens falsely suggested he led a 2024 movement to withhold primary votes from former President Joe Biden.

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

A group of 61 biopharma companies, executives and investors has filed an amicus brief in support of the FDA in an ongoing case brought by Louisiana meant to remove access to the abortion pill mifep | ...

More than 1,000 people in Oregon have been ordered to evacuate their homes this week

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.

Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., the Nobel Laureate best known for co-inventing the CRISPR system that has become the foundation for gene editing, is dipping her toes into a new, buzzy field:

Susumu Tonegawa, a renowned MIT professor of biology and neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, has died at the age of 86. His discovery of how the immune system generates many different antibodies earned...

Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.

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He appeared in more than 150 productions over a five-decade career but was perhaps best known for his star turn in the “Jurassic Park” series.

Strategic divestment of consumer media portfolio enables Springer Nature to focus on its core business Transaction supports the long-term development

Exclusive: STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old to gain extraordinary access to an experimental obesity drug through the agency’s “compassionate use” program.

Since GLP-1 drugs like Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide and Eli Lilly’s tirzepatide took the world by storm for their potent treatment of diabetes and obesity, they have also been plagued by a clinical c | ...

GSK is pulling back the curtain on the phase 3 success of its chronic hepatitis B drug bepirovirsen, revealing that nearly one-fifth of all treated patients across two trials were functionally cure | ...

Elsevier has retracted a 2021 study claiming sudden infant death syndrome is linked to vaccines over concerns the paper might influence patient care.   The single-author study, by longtim…

As an outbreak of Ebola in central Africa continues to worsen, the federal government has tapped a little-known biotech in San Diego to provide doses of an experimental antibody that may be used to | ...

Finding ways to ease the suffering of beached whales has been a challenge. Whale experts may have found an answer.

Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs