The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

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The Trump administration ended all National Institutes of Health funding support for research involving aborted human fetal tissue.

A planned U.S.-funded study of a hepatitis B vaccine drew widespread condemnation from researchers. Now the host country says it cannot proceed.

The Core And Filament Formation/Evolution In Natal Environments (CAFFEINE) survey is an "astronomer's best friend," according to the European Southern Observatory.

A growing body of evidence suggests play is a deep-seated biological mechanism that allows young brains to practice curiosity, manage uncertainty and build critical thinking skills ...

An artificial intelligence-based tool can predict the medical trajectories of individual premature newborns from blood samples collected soon after they are born, a Stanford Medicine-led study has ...

He Jiankui’s name became synonymous with scientific transgression when his secret experiment produced the world’s first gene-edited babies. After serving a prison sentence in China, he is back in the ...

How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one? A decade after ...