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red lungs
In the Lab

Connecting donated human lungs to pigs repaired damage to the organs, scientists report

By Elizabeth Cooney

Mouse exercise
In the Lab

How does exercise benefit the aging brain? Transfusing blood from active mice into sedentary ones suggests an answer

By Theresa Gaffney

Sorrento Therapeutics
Health

Women researchers are publishing less since the pandemic hit. What can their employers do to help?

By Juliet Isselbacher

Medical navigation Covid-19
First Opinion

To make progress against Covid-19, processes must serve people, not a ‘labyrinth of bureaucratic rules’

By Peter Pronovost

Magnifying glass
Health

New journal will vet Covid-19 preprints, calling out misinformation and highlighting credible research

By Sharon Begley

Colorful DNA molecule
Biotech

Two patients die in Audentes gene therapy study, heightening concerns over high-dose treatments

By Matthew Herper

Black & Latinx community cv testing_compton
First Opinion

Covid-19 vaccine research must involve Black and Latinx participants. Here are 4 ways to make that happen

By Kathryn Stephenson and Bisola Ojikutu

Baclofene
Pharmalot

A pill to fight alcoholism causes an uproar in France over a regulator’s view of a clinical trial

By Ed Silverman

human T cells in culture
Biotech

Engineering a better immunotherapy to outwit cancer — and launch a biotech

By Elizabeth Cooney

Fu-mouse-astrocytes-neurons
In the Lab

A preliminary new method could restore the brain cells Parkinson’s disease patients lost

By Natalya Ortolano

sick patients w/ iv bags challenge trials
First Opinion

Human challenge trials with live coronavirus aren’t the answer to a Covid-19 vaccine

By Michael Rosenblatt

red droplets
In the Lab

New findings about little-studied cellular compartments could help make chemo more effective

By Elizabeth Cooney

folgers in your cup
In the Lab

By tricking mice into sensing fake smells, scientists decode how the brain recognizes scent

By Juliet Isselbacher

Fauci w/ flag scientists
First Opinion

Scientists as heroes: Let’s keep that image in the public eye

By Marja Makarow

dialysis hand
Health

Racial bias skews algorithms widely used to guide care from heart surgery to birth, study finds

By Sharon Begley

UC Berk_Wheeler Hall
In the Lab

University of California strikes research access deal with Nature publisher, putting pressure on Elsevier

By Rebecca Robbins

Karen Howley
Health

‘We have a job to do’: Cancer patients and their doctors carry on with clinical trials during Covid-19

By Elizabeth Cooney

Play
In the Lab

Watch: How some cells serve as unlikely heroes to defend the brain from viral invaders

By Theresa Gaffney

human embryo /human gastruloid
In the Lab

A new embryo-like model could help scientists study the ‘black box’ of early human development

By Natalya Ortolano

MIT Building 10
In the Lab

Another domino falls: MIT ends negotiations with Elsevier over research access dispute

By Rebecca Robbins

yellow and blue brains
First Opinion

Collective intelligence, not market competition, will deliver the best Covid-19 vaccine

By Els Torreele

Covid ICU patient sepsis
First Opinion

A national registry could help defeat sepsis, a big contributor to Covid-19 deaths

By Steven Q. Simpson, Karin H. Molander, and Rommie Duckworth

Male and female symbols
In the Lab

Females are still routinely left out of biomedical research — and ignored in analyses of data

By Elizabeth Cooney

newspaper/journal
In the Lab

After retractions of two Covid-19 papers, scientists ask what went wrong

By Sharon Begley

hydroxychloroquine pills & bottle
Exclusive

Researcher involved in retracted Lancet study has faculty appointment terminated, as details in scandal emerge

By Matthew Herper and Kate Sheridan

tech holds hydroxychloroquine
Health

Lancet, New England Journal retract Covid-19 studies, including one that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs

By Andrew Joseph

Utah handguns
Health

Handgun ownership vastly increases suicide risk, large study confirms

By Shraddha Chakradhar

Biotech

Video Chat: The ASCO Recap, Live!

By Adam Feuerstein

Hydroxychloroquine at Rock Canyon Pharmacy
Health

Top medical journals raise concerns about data in two studies related to Covid-19

By Matthew Herper and Andrew Joseph

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