In a small, preliminary study, an experimental gene-editing treatment dramatically lowered cholesterol levels, perhaps permanently, after just one infusion, scientists reported on Monday. If confirmed in...
Using a groundbreaking method, researchers have likely identified the lost remains of the second governor of the colony of Maryland. The Maryland Dove docked at Historic...
The Trump administration has been making headlines for taking steps to loosen restrictions around cannabis, including legalizing it for medical use. Now it is beginning an...
More than 2,500 scientists said in a letter to Congress on Monday that President Trump’s dismissal of the National Science Foundation’s oversight board was an “alarming...
For about a decade, scientists have had remarkable success curing some blood cancers by modifying a patient’s own immune cells to recognize and kill the malignant...
WHEN THE FOREST BREATHES: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World, by Suzanne Simard It’s the summer of 2023 and the Canadian forest ecologist Suzanne Simard...
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said little publicly about vaccines in recent months, at the behest of a White House worried that his unpopular...
The deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius has put the spotlight on a rare pathogen that typically attracts relatively little attention, even from...
A couple of years ago, in the middle of the night, I crept downstairs to find my father sitting at the kitchen table, sobbing like a...
In a sterile Bristol Myers Squibb lab about an hour north of Boston, scientists in scrubs and hairnets transfer living cells to a 2,000-liter stainless steel...
