Brain-imaging study shows ‘hot spot’ that may explain why African Americans feel greater pain
To be black in America is to literally feel greater pain than non-Hispanic white people…
Category: research
Opinion: Cash from cannabis companies creates conflicted researchers
Imagine that scientists charged with doing research on tobacco’s health implications were funded by tobacco…
Opinion: Preprints can fill a void in times of rapidly changing science
The rapid emergence in China of 2019-nCoV, a novel coronavirus, and its spread beyond its…
Top Harvard chemist charged with lying about ties to Chinese government program
The head of Harvard University’s chemistry department was charged on Tuesday with attempting to conceal…
TB vaccines can vary greatly, study finds. But does that mean some are less protective?
It all started with a bit of bacteria swiped from the udder of a tuberculous…
Opinion: The cannabis boom could be good for science — and scientists
I’ve been a chemistry professor for 15 years and a chemist for longer than that….
New coronavirus can cause infections with no symptoms and sicken otherwise healthy people, studies show
Two papers published Friday in the journal the Lancet offer some of the first rigorous…
‘Traumatic as hell’: Patients describe what it’s like to be restrained in the ER
Sometimes, in especially intense moments in the emergency room, a staffer might have to take…
Opinion: Using social norms to drive positive changes in health
Well-intentioned efforts to help others often backfire, but we can learn from our mistakes. Vaping…
Mount Vesuvius blast turned ancient victim’s brain to glass
MILAN — The eruption of Mount Vesuvius turned an incinerated victim’s brain material into glass,…
Researchers have already grown miniature brains and lungs. Next up: snake venom gland organoids
It’s not every day that a press release for biomedical research conjures up the Barbasol…
A fitting memorial: Superbug treatment named for the patient who inspired its discovery
Even for the most elite of bacteria-killers, these superbugs were a challenge. They’d delayed Mallory…
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A ‘landmark’ achievement: Scientists trace full wiring diagram of the fly brain’s core
Particle physicists are used to popping champagne corks when they make discoveries at lilliputian scales,…
Opinion: We don’t need to ban vaping. We need to build better vaping devices
What’s the health care system to do when thousands of individuals, many of them between…
Tweaking how CAR-T therapy kills tumors could stop a dangerous side effect, study finds
As every trauma surgeon knows, there are messy bullet wounds and there are neat ones,…
Opinion: Microglia: a new target in the brain for depression, Alzheimer’s, and more?
More than a decade ago, I was diagnosed with a string of autoimmune diseases, one…
Opinion: The public science behind the ‘Merck’ Ebola vaccine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved an important vaccine against Ebola, five years…
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Previously unseen mutations in stem cells of young donors can be passed to recipients, study finds
Doctors use stem cell transplants to treat patients with certain cancers or blood disorders. And…
FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret, investigation shows
This story was originally published by Science. It is a follow-up to STAT articles in…
Woman with novel pneumonia virus hospitalized in Thailand — the first case outside China
Health authorities on Monday identified a pneumonia case caused by a previously unknown virus in…
First death from Wuhan pneumonia outbreak reported as scientists release DNA sequence of virus
Health authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Saturday reported the first death from…
STAT Plus: Regeneron drug reduces bone growth for patients with ultra-rare skeletal disease
Patients with the ultra-rare disease FOP grow bone where it doesn’t belong, creating a life-threatening…
Opinion: Did a high-profile program really slash hospital spending? Or was it a cautionary tale of ‘regression to the mean’?
In the late 19th century, English polymath Sir Francis Galton noted that tall parents often…
Delivering the TB vaccine by IV better protects monkeys, new study finds
A new study suggests that a simple tweak could make a century-old vaccine for tuberculosis…
Opinion: He Jiankui is going to jail. Would the U.S. criminally prosecute a rogue gene-editing researcher?
On Monday, 13 months after He Jiankui announced that he had created the world’s first…
He Jiankui, who created world’s first CRISPR’d babies, sentenced to three years in prison
A Chinese court on Monday sentenced He Jiankui, the scientist who made the world’s first…
Opinion: Improving the next generation of drugs through patient-centric design for clinical trials
When a process works, it’s natural to try to repeat it rather than recreate or…
Unorthodox Alzheimer’s researcher Robert Moir dies at age 58
When science reporters look for researchers to profile, we put a premium on the importance…
Scientists aren’t sure why identical twins differ. Armadillo quads offer an answer
One of the armadillo quadruplets runs away when she hears Amanda Withnell approaching; her three…
Experimental vaccine patch embeds invisible dots under the skin, leaving record of immunization
Ana Jaklenec readily acknowledges she’s inspired by “Star Trek.” The Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist…
New study in mice points to why melanoma spreads — and perhaps how to prevent metastasis
In some melanoma patients, the tumor cells stay in the skin where they started, never…
STAT Plus: In novel partnership with cancer group, biotech venture firm doles out grants for research
The whole point of a biotech venture capital firm is to make money for itself…
Female researchers are less likely than men to frame their work with positive words, study finds
Are men more impressed with their own scientific research than women? Or are women warned…
Opinion: BMJ should retract flawed research paper on chronic fatigue syndrome
Few journals have been more admirable than The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) and…
Surgeons test-drive the amputation of the future with a mail-order limb, rerouted nerve, and prosthetic hand that grips like the real thing
WALTHAM, Mass. — The surgeons, peering through loupes with 3x magnification, have dissected away the…
STAT Plus: After Ice Bucket campaign, researchers have optimism about insights into ALS puzzle
Five years after Pete Frates helped launch the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness and…
STAT Plus: Bristol-Myers CMO on cell therapies: ‘This is the best time to be in drug development’
ORLANDO, Fla. — In June, Dr. Samit Hirawat was appointed chief medical officer of Bristol-Myers…
Opinion: The EPA’s proposed ‘transparency rule’ will harm health, safety, and the environment
A proposed rule by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that allegedly aims to strengthen transparency…
Opinion: Creating a Facebook for cell communication can help treat disease
Everyone, it seems, uses Facebook and LinkedIn these days. Social networking sites make it incredibly…
Listen: Biogen’s big reveal, hot takes on Alzheimer’s, & the science of one-eyed sheep
How do you know if a “positive” study is positive? And what if clinical trial…
How police shootings of unarmed black Americans could be harming the health of black infants
Police shootings of unarmed black Americans have escalated a national debate about racial injustice and…
STAT Plus: Congress is hoping for another major medical research bill. But pharma’s not nearly as excited as before
WASHINGTON — The bipartisan duo behind a 2016 law that poured billions into medical research…
Warning: Swimming and deep brain stimulation do not mix
For people with Parkinson’s disease, deep brain stimulation can calm the tremors and tame the…
Two Ebola treatments yield ‘substantial decrease’ in mortality, landmark trial shows
Final data from a landmark clinical trial of four Ebola therapies conducted in the current…
For babies born with HIV, start treatment right away, study says
WASHINGTON — When babies are born with HIV, starting treatment within hours to days is…
With the help of ketamine, researchers rewrite memories in a bid to curb harmful drinking
Our memories are immensely powerful. For a person with alcohol use disorder, a memory triggered…
Opinion: Barring cisgender women from the Descovy trials was a bad call
Of the estimated 38 million people living with HIV around the world, more than half…
STAT Plus: Facing bottlenecks in manufacturing cell therapies, Boston leaders plan to build their own
A group of leading Boston-area universities, hospitals, and corporations will create a new center for…