Watch: How some cells serve as unlikely heroes to defend the brain from viral invaders
Scientists have discovered the important role of microglia cells in protecting a mouse brain’s central…
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A new embryo-like model could help scientists study the ‘black box’ of early human development
Researchers have developed the first-ever embryo-like model from human embryonic stem cells, a workaround that…
Opinion: Collective intelligence, not market competition, will deliver the best Covid-19 vaccine
Imagine mobilizing the world’s brightest and most creative minds — from biotech and pharmaceutical industries,…
Opinion: A national registry could help defeat sepsis, a big contributor to Covid-19 deaths
As doctors and paramedics who treat the victims of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have seen…
Females are still routinely left out of biomedical research — and ignored in analyses of data
If you think biomedical scientists are doing a better job studying both biological sexes in…
After retractions of two Covid-19 papers, scientists ask what went wrong
With last week’s retractions of two Covid-19 papers from a pair of the world’s top…
Researcher involved in retracted Lancet study has faculty appointment terminated, as details in scandal emerge
The University of Utah has “mutually agreed” to terminate the faculty appointment of Amit Patel,…
Lancet retracts major Covid-19 paper that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs
The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, on Thursday retracted an influential study…
Handgun ownership vastly increases suicide risk, large study confirms
A large new study confirms what mental health experts and those who research firearms have…
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Top medical journals raise concerns about data in two studies related to Covid-19
Two of the world’s leading medical journals on Tuesday expressed concern about potential flaws in…
New research offers hope for a way through the blood-brain barrier, ‘the final frontier for drug delivery’
We’ve evolved elegant protections for our brains. Gray matter deftly avoids contact with most interlopers,…
STAT Plus: Bacteria are widespread in tumors, forming distinct populations depending on the cancer type
In what outside experts called the most rigorous and comprehensive survey of bacteria in human…
Opinion: Beating Covid-19 will change how new therapies are developed
The global Covid-19 pandemic has left families and communities around the globe grieving for lost…
STAT Plus: Scientists 3D-map the ‘little brain of the (rat) heart’
Even cardiologists might not know — or pay attention to — the intracardiac nervous system….
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Watch: How researchers will study Covid-19 vaccines
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, has sickened millions of people around the world and…
‘It’s something I have never seen’: How the Covid-19 virus hijacks cells
A deep dive into how the new coronavirus infects cells has found that it orchestrates…
STAT Plus: Many pivotal drug studies don’t include data on race or ethnicity, analysis finds
Amid concerns that clinical trials do not adequately represent patient populations, a new analysis finds…
Ethics questions swirl around historic Parkinson’s experiment
A secretive experiment revealed this week, in which neurosurgeons transplanted brain cells into a patient…
STAT Plus: ‘Good’ bacteria could help fight a common vaginal infection, new data show
Most companies in the microbiome space have focused on recurrent, deadly C. difficile bacterial infections….
STAT Plus: Deluge of genome editing therapies end research drought for sickle cell disease
The newest publicly traded genome editing company, Beam Therapeutics, has gotten one of its experimental…
New research sheds light on sex imbalances in diseases like schizophrenia and lupus
There’s a clear sex bias in many diseases. Lupus, for instance, affects women nine times…
Giving blood thinners to severely ill Covid-19 patients is gaining ground
Treating Covid-19 patients with medicines to prevent blood clots might help reduce deaths in patients…
Using human brain tissue in lab dishes, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s
A small 3D version of the human brain develops key features of Alzheimer’s disease when…
STAT Plus: Cellular ‘backpacks’ keep immune cells in attack mode against tumors
In a study recently published in Science Advances, Samir Mitragotri’s team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute…
Efforts to beat back the coronavirus are critical. They’re also making clinical trials harder
In March, a team of Chinese scientists studying whether the antiviral remdesivir was effective against…
Covid-19 has shuttered scientific labs. It could put a generation of researchers at risk
Scientists are skilled at tackling unexpected problems that threaten the integrity of their experiments —…
Opinion: Time well spent: How academic researchers can stay productive in the time of Covid-19
Years of my cancer research work came to a grinding halt on March 13. I…
STAT Plus: Researchers develop a non-invasive way to manipulate neurons to study behavior
A version of this article first ran in Morning Rounds, STAT’s newsletter offering a daily…
Mind-controlled prosthetic arm enables patients to feel the objects they grip
When electrician Rickard Normark lost his left arm after being electrocuted at work in 2011,…
Opinion: Big Pharma could boost its reputation with a solid response to Covid-19
President Trump, a known critic of Big Pharma, summoned 10 executives from various pharmaceutical companies…
A ‘sniff test’ signals consciousness after a brain injury, study shows
An unconscious person’s response to odors after a serious brain injury may be a simple…
STAT Plus: Patients, drug makers grapple with how to continue cancer trials during the coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown a wrench into plans for hundreds of clinical trials seeking…
STAT Plus: For the first time, a blood test helped doctors find and treat cancers in seemingly healthy people
For the first time, doctors have used the results of a liquid biopsy test to…
STAT Plus: Off-the-shelf CAR-T therapy helps leukemia patients in a small, first-in-human trial
Scientists have created the first off-the-shelf CAR-T cells for a deadly form of adult leukemia,…
Opinion: It’s time to make ClinicalTrials.gov a better tool for patients. Here’s how
Millions of people visit ClinicalTrials.gov each year to find a trial that they or a…
Opinion: Scientists who express different views on Covid-19 should be heard, not demonized
When major decisions must be made amid high scientific uncertainty, as is the case with…
STAT Plus: ‘GI tract outside the body’ tests how well oral drugs are absorbed
When people swallow a pill, they expect the medicine to quickly reach the source of…
STAT Plus: Immunotherapy from Regeneron and Sanofi extends survival in non-small cell lung cancer
An immunotherapy from the drug firms Regeneron and Sanofi extended survival in previously untreated patients…
Closely watched arthritis drug disappoints as a Covid-19 treatment, studies show
An arthritis drug that was seen as a promising treatment for some Covid-19 patients delivered…
STAT Plus: New type of checkpoint inhibitor offers early promise against tumors, but will it last?
A new type of checkpoint inhibitor from an Israeli biotech company called Compugen is showing…
Opinion: The Covid-19 pandemic could mark the beginning of the ‘biotech century’
If you had infinite foresight and knew a pathogen like Covid-19 was coming, what would…
STAT Plus: Custom cell therapy shrinks lung tumors, seeding hope for a new cancer treatment
Tumors shrank in one quarter of patients with advanced lung cancer who received a bespoke…
The results of coronavirus ‘serosurveys’ are starting to be released. Here’s how to kick their tires
Results from the first studies designed to determine how widely the coronavirus has spread in…
Everything we know about coronavirus immunity and antibodies — and plenty we still don’t
People who think they’ve been exposed to the novel coronavirus are clamoring for antibody tests…
Novartis steps up to study of hydroxychloroquine in Covid-19
The drug giant Novartis said Monday it would conduct a 450-person study to determine if…
STAT Plus: An FDA tool for hastening approvals is not very useful for breast cancer drugs
Nearly two years ago, the Food and Drug Administration published a table of surrogate endpoints…
NIH partners with 16 drug companies in hopes of accelerating Covid-19 treatments and vaccines
WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health on Friday announced it would launch a sweeping…
STAT Plus: With new data, experimental drug offers hope for new approach to treating schizophrenia
It’s been decades since the last meaningful advance in treating schizophrenia appeared. A new medicine…
Simply speaking could transmit coronavirus, new study suggests
Speaking calmly and at a normal volume produces liquid droplets so small they can remain…