The FDA has approved a life-extending treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer — the first such therapy to attack a genetic cause of the highly lethal malignancy.

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The Trump administration released its blueprint for U.S. science, calling for shifting hundreds of billions of research dollars from universities to industry.

Fluorescent proteins and small-molecule dyes offer complementary advantages for biological imaging: proteins are amenable to genetic tagging, whereas dyes provide superior brightness and photostabilit...

Stand up for Science

Peer review serves as the cornerstone of scientific quality control. Yet, the current journal-centric system is hindered by long timelines, high publication costs, inconsistent review quality, systemi...

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.

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

A new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D.

This cross-sectional study assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) data from fiscal years 2016-2025 comprising annual counts of principal investigators funded through research grants and fellowsh...

Advances in genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics have uncovered the existence of thousands of translated small open reading frames less than 100–150 codons in length that encode microproteins. In ...

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

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Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

At public and private universities across the country, high-impact science is being damaged and derailed.

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The National Institutes of Health and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are targeting collaborations between U.S. scientists and foreign researchers, Science reports.

The NIH’s spending on new medical research is significantly slower than in previous years, leaving confused scientists in the lurch.

La Jolla, California—April 29, 2026—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced that J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., the Institute’s founder, board...

Akeke and Zhang defend against the DOJ's investigation into Stanford Medicine and advocate for the importance of diversity consideration in admissions.

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