Opinion: The monkeypox vaccine underscores the value of U.S. investments in preparedness
After living through the Covid-19 epidemic, many people around the world reacted to the sudden…
Category: research
In a boost for species conservation, freeze-dried mouse cells produce healthy pups
Two years after scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland delivered Dolly the sheep, the…
Lattes and gummies: Food science inspires a new approach to treating gut and liver injury
Inspired by how coffee shops foam milk, as well as gummy candy and sizzling Pop…
Opinion: Looking for ‘black swan’ outbreaks can prepare for future pandemics
In December 2021, one year into the Covid-19 pandemic, my colleague Alina Deshpande had the…
Opinion: Needed: a clearer explanation of why diversity in clinical trials is important
Increasing the diversity of clinical trial participants is all the rage these days. The numbers…
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STAT+: Congress is closer than ever to formally authorizing ARPA-H. But the details aren’t as final as they seem
WASHINGTON — It seemed like the debate over President Biden’s new high-stakes science agency, ARPA-H,…
Women less likely than men to get authorship on scientific publications, analysis finds
Look at the list of authors on a scientific paper and you’ll typically see more…
Opinion: The U.S. needs to revitalize research on the health effects of low-dose radiation
People are exposed to low-dose radiation in many ways: having a CT scan, working as…
These researchers study abortion in states likely to ban it. That will make their jobs even harder
Last September, Texas lawmakers passed the most restrictive abortion policy in the country. The state’s…
Opinion: Hold science to higher standards on racism
Shortly before an 18-year-old white supremacist entered a supermarket in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo,…
Three burning questions about the first brain reference charts
Scientists have created the first reference charts for the human brain, mapping its growth from…
Life expectancy for Native Americans has stagnated — even long before Covid
Native American and Alaska Native populations were the only Americans to see no increase whatsoever…
Girl’s case of lupus leads to new understanding of a perplexing disease
As a young girl, Gabriela Piqueras wasn’t quite like the other children in her class….
STAT+: Verily co-founder lays out vision for how real-world data can transform health care
SAN DIEGO — The real world’s a messy place, but there’s a lot you can…
Opinion: Understanding long Covid will take the lived experiences of long haulers
I went from training for the Big Sur 21-miler to barely being able to climb…
Are these Cocoa Krispies-loving hamsters a key to cracking long Covid?
New York — In late 2020, Justin Frere, a wiry M.D./Ph.D. student dressed in head-to-toe…
Opinion: It’s time to move past Aduhelm and focus on a broader Alzheimer’s drug pipeline
When Alzheimer’s disease was believed to be caused solely by the accumulation of amyloid protein…
STAT+: Francis Collins: Concern about independence of new moonshot science agency ARPA-H are ‘overblown’
WASHINGTON — Francis Collins thinks the debate surrounding the Biden administration’s new high-stakes research agency…
Novel genetic experiment shrinks tough-to-treat cancer
In a novel experiment, a woman with advanced pancreatic cancer saw her tumors dramatically shrink…
Four neuroscientists win Kavli Prize for discovering genes behind serious brain disorders
Four neuroscientists who discovered the genes involved in a host of serious brain disorders won…
Costly Alzheimer’s treatment is spreading around the world, with virtually no science to back it up
BERLIN — Looking more like a barber than a doctor, orthopedic surgeon Musa Citak squirted…
Faulty oxygen readings delayed Covid treatments for darker-skinned patients, study finds
Covid-19 care, including distribution of lifesaving therapies, was significantly delayed for Black and Hispanic patients…
Mistreatment in medical school leads students to leave, with students of color faring the worst
Medical students who report being mistreated or discriminated against are far more likely to drop…
STAT+: The World Health Assembly moves to bolster clinical trials, but some say it falls short
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution designed to…
STAT+: New kind of off-the-shelf cancer vaccine reduces metastasis in animal experiments
About 15 years ago, cancer researchers noticed a trend. Some of the patients they were…
Are smartphones making us miserable? A Google study aims to find out
Google is teaming up with researchers to investigate how the mobile devices glued to our…
Cancer deaths among Black people drop, but still higher than other groups
Cancer death rates have steadily declined among Black people but remain higher than in other…
Opinion: Does Paxlovid help people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19? Show us the data!
As a primary care doctor in New York City, I am grateful to drug companies…
Cancer experts hail a molecular ‘black box’ that records how cells fly into tumor territory
Biologists Tyler Jacks and Jonathan Weissman’s mice may look like any other lab mice —…
STAT+: Drugmakers use monopoly tactics to thwart lower-cost generic competition for inhalers, analysis finds
For more than three decades, drugmakers have used various tactics to win and extend monopolies…
Publication of the ‘Google Maps’ of human cells is a milestone. A pioneer of the project explains why
Just under your skin lie whole aqueous worlds, where trillions of cells spark and beat…
In radical claim, study suggests inflammation wards off chronic pain instead of causing it
For two decades, Luda Diatchenko investigated the underlying biology of pain like a detective chasing…
Transfusion of brain fluid from young mice is a memory-elevating elixir for old animals
For a human, one of the first signs someone is getting old is the inability…
Firearm deaths and disparities both grew in pandemic’s first year
Guns were the weapons wielded in more than three-quarters of homicides in the U.S. during…
Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans should be screened at lower BMI for diabetes, study says
Widely used physician guidelines that ignore patients’ race and ethnicity could be doing more harm…
STAT+: The panel was supposed to improve efficiency at the NIH. It hasn’t even met for 7 years
WASHINGTON — An oversight board tasked with making the National Institutes of Health more efficient…
Opinion: Building scientific talent in the Global South can help prevent future public health crises
There’s a clamor around the world to return to the pre-pandemic “normal.” In reality, though,…
Opinion: Building scientific talent in the Global South can help prevent future public health crises
There’s a clamor around the world to return to the pre-pandemic “normal.” In reality, though,…
Study uncovers clues to rise in uterine cancer death rates
A rare but aggressive kind of uterine cancer appears to be driving an increase in…
A new ‘master regulator’ could call the tune for hair cells essential to hearing
The act of hearing is like a ballroom dance, scientist Jaime García-Añoveros says. Tiny hair…
More uniformly infectious, more treatable, more genetically predictable: How coronavirus is getting closer to flu
Hours after a federal judge struck down the federal mask mandate covering air travel and…
The brain ‘learns’ to have seizures more efficiently and frequently over time, mouse study shows
Calculus. Ballroom dancing. The words to your favorite song. There’s practically no limit to what…
Hundreds of families share a lethal inheritance. This kidney researcher hopes to break the chain
Autumn Steen roiled in the pew of the chapel, Bowditch Union Free Will Baptist Church…
STAT+: With new diabetes drug data, Eli Lilly is taking aim at obesity
Eli Lilly released new data Thursday showing that an injectable diabetes drug it is developing,…
Opinion: Making Medicare, Medicaid innovation tests voluntary undermines evaluation opportunities
The U.S. health care system is often inefficient, ineffective, and inequitable. Compared to other high-income…
STAT+: Right to try 2.0: Advocates want to reduce oversight of ‘n of 1’ therapies
WASHINGTON — The libertarian think tank behind the federal “right-to-try” law is back at it…
Majority of family members of Covid patients treated in the ICU report PTSD symptoms
A majority of family members of Covid-19 patients treated in ICUs reported significant symptoms of…
STAT+: Pharma R&D payments to European researchers are like ‘dark money’
Due to inadequate disclosure policies, drug company payments to European researchers and institutions for R&D…
Opinion: Wearable device data need to represent all of us
The growing uptake of wearable devices has sparked enthusiasm among health researchers, and for good…
STAT+: Multiple myeloma is usually detected late. Some researchers think a precursor could help catch it early
For all the recent advances in treating multiple myeloma, scientists have only inched forward in…