STAT Plus: Within months of birth, some pathogens are detectable in infants’ guts, new research shows
Bacteria have long been the star of microbiome research. But the human gut is not…
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Opinion: To accelerate innovation, the CDC should ease limits on which labs can handle the coronavirus
Not long after SARS-CoV-2 was first identified in December 2019 as the cause of an…
Opinion: Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, it is time for biomedical research investments to pay off
The Covid-19 pandemic is the monumental public health challenge the medical community has been fearing…
International trial uses AI to rapidly identify optimal Covid-19 treatments
Treating patients with the never-before-seen Covid-19 is forcing doctors to choose between two equally unpalatable…
You need a special lab to study the coronavirus. Here’s what it takes to get one up and running
Before the pandemic, there was only a small group of researchers dedicated to studying coronaviruses….
‘Smart toilet’ could monitor for signs of illness in urine and stool, study finds
Analyzing urine and stool to get a picture of health has traditionally been the work…
MIT’s Koch Institute wins STAT Madness with technology to see tiny ovarian tumors
Carbon nanotubes rule. In this year’s STAT Madness, a bracket-style competition to honor the best…
STAT Plus: ‘It’s the disparity in who gets affected’: A sickle cell doctor tracks dollars and drug development
Sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis are both rare, genetic diseases. While there are three…
Debate flares over using AI to detect Covid-19 in lung scans
A series of studies, starting as a steady drip and quickening to a deluge, has…
What if hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work? What if it does? Right now, we don’t know
An old malaria medicine, hydroxychloroquine, has gone viral on the internet. But is it really…
What it’s like to go into the lab at a biopharma company during the coronavirus pandemic
Like grocery store clerks and Amazon delivery drivers, they’re among the essential workers of the…
Can location data from smartphones help slow the coronavirus? Facebook is giving academics a chance to try
It’s emerging as one of the more promising — and potentially controversial — ideas to…
Why President Trump is at odds with his medical experts over using malaria drugs against Covid-19
One of the most wrenching questions in medicine has been playing out to garish effect…
Near-lockdown in the Bay Area ‘ratchets up’ challenges for local biotechs and labs
At the stroke of midnight on Tuesday morning, seven counties in the San Francisco Bay…
Regeneron says potential Covid-19 drugs could start human tests by early summer
The biotechnology firm Regeneron said it has now developed hundreds of potential medicines that could…
To spur new AI tools to fight coronavirus, tech leaders launch open database of scientific articles
Five organizations on Monday released a new open dataset of over 29,000 scientific articles published…
Coronavirus pandemic forces some research labs to shut down, with uncertain futures for scientific projects
Scientists who study coronaviruses or design antiviral therapies are grinding away at their research like…
A new paper about a Gilead drug to combat coronavirus has some analysts skittish about success
As anticipation mounts over the prospects for an experimental Gilead Sciences (GILD) drug to combat…
STAT Plus: Danish regulator eyes sanctions — including prison time — against trial sponsors that fail to post results
In the latest effort toward greater clinical trial transparency, the Danish Medicines Agency is threatening…
Microbial signatures in the blood could offer new avenue for liquid biopsies to detect cancer
The many companies developing liquid biopsies to try to detect cancer early have so far…
STAT Plus: Coronavirus fears may slow clinical trials and delay regulatory steps
Initially, plans for the huge clinical trial were proceeding apace. After months of groundwork, about…
STAT Plus: Clinical research company sued over stolen trade secrets after employee filmed dogs used in experiments
Nearly two years ago, Charles River Laboratories (CRL) paid $800 million for a company called…
STAT Madness voting ends tonight. Cast your vote for the best innovations in biomedicine
Welcome to the fourth annual STAT Madness, a bracket-style tournament to find the best innovations…
Opinion: A coronavirus vaccine should be for everyone, not just those who can afford it
As the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spreads in more than 60 countries, the race to…
New surgery and AI give amputees more precise control of a prosthetic hand, study shows
People with limb injuries severe enough to require an amputation have few options to regain…
Opinion: Doctors need to embrace the ‘power of yet’
I believe in the power of yet. Doctors should, too, especially the one who used…
STAT Plus: New estimate says developing a drug costs $1.3 billion, which is a lot, but less than companies often say
Estimates of how much it cost to invent and test a new medicine have been…
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Opinion: Precision medicine: course correction urgently needed
An undeclared civil war is breaking out in biomedicine. On one side is precision medicine, with…
Opinion: Research in the time of coronavirus: keep it ethical
The sudden outbreak of Covid-19, a disease caused by a new coronavirus, is proving to…
STAT Plus: Turned away from five clinical trials, a cancer patient waits for one that will take him
It’s hard enough for any cancer patient to get into clinical trials. It’s even harder…
STAT Plus: They have ‘Alzheimer’s brains’ but no symptoms. A new wave of drug developers wants to know why
For years they were flukes of the Alzheimer’s world: elderly people who died at an…
Researchers develop AI-based intervention for kids with autism
Everyday social interactions with family members and peers can be challenging for children with autism…
Federal judge rules clinical trial sponsors must publish a decade’s worth of missing data
WASHINGTON — For years, government research agencies have misinterpreted a law that requires them to…
STAT Plus: Google’s labors to anonymize patient data suggest health systems face an uphill battle
Google has been exploring creative ways to protect sensitive health data, even as it has…
Most adults don’t need booster vaccinations for tetanus and diphtheria, new study concludes
People who got all their vaccinations against tetanus and diphtheria in childhood don’t need booster…
STAT Plus: New partnership tries to make up for missing drug data in cost-effectiveness analyses
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, ICER, a nonprofit that has become a central…
Here are the contenders for STAT Madness 2020. Voting begins March 2
A DNA microscope. A gene therapy for “bubble boy” disease. The restoration of cellular activity…
After 40 years, the Alzheimer’s Association sees signs of progress against a devastating disease. Is it real?
CHICAGO — In 1979, a man named Jerome Stone, frustrated with the lack of options…
A Chinese biotech partners with GSK to boost its coronavirus vaccine development
A Chinese biotech has taken up vaccine maker GSK’s offer to share its vaccine-boosting platform…
Aided by machine learning, scientists find a novel antibiotic able to kill superbugs in mice
For decades, discovering novel antibiotics meant digging through the same patch of dirt. Biologists spent…
Opinion: Approaches to complex care innovation are ‘naïve and insufficient.’ We need systems and design thinking
I was a second-year medical school student when I encountered my first patient with GRID…
Scientists turn organs transparent — and use a new technique to capture 3D pictures of what’s inside
Scientists in Germany have turned human organs transparent and captured pictures of the complex cellular…
How the psychology of a $4.99 price tag might influence who undergoes heart surgery
Health economists aren’t generally known for their humor. There’s something about Medicaid that’s just deeply…
How many? The coronavirus is prompting a burst of clinical trials in search of a treatment
The coronavirus sweeping across China has triggered a burst of research activity aimed at finding…
Priscilla Chan charts an ambitious, unglamorous course to fight disease. (Her husband is involved, too.)
SAN FRANCISCO — Dr. Priscilla Chan was just over a year out of her pediatric…
Opinion: Armchair philosophizing doesn’t help conscious patients in vegetative states
“Imagine.” This word let a severely brain injured patient tell neuroscientists she was still conscious…
The vodka trial: In search of a treatment for vocal disorders, a researcher puts patient anecdotes to the test
Mondays are vodka days. For the members of Dr. Kristina Simonyan’s lab, this is not…
Opinion: Open science, publishing, and public research support: Could Trump have it right?
In the three years since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, I have rarely supported…
Study is halted as HIV vaccine fails test in South Africa
The latest attempt at an HIV vaccine has failed, as researchers announced Monday they have…
Quick retraction of a faulty coronavirus paper was a good moment for science
As fears of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV continued to spread last Friday, an inflammatory new…