Watch: A conversation with the 2022 STAT Wunderkinds
Each year, STAT sets out to celebrate the unheralded heroes of science and medicine, poring…
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‘The tipping point is coming’: Unprecedented exodus of young life scientists is shaking up academia
SAN DIEGO — Rayyan Gorashi is keeping her options open. After all, she’s still a…
Who will get the call from Stockholm? It’s time for STAT’s 2022 Nobel Prize predictions
We live in a time where the rate of medical and superlative scientific advances is…
Listen: Big egos in Big Science, the return of Merger Monday, & the fallout over drug pricing
Are biotech’s fortunes finally changing? Is Big Science impeding actual science? And what will Medicare…
STAT+: At pioneering center for gene therapy, Jim Wilson presided over toxic, abusive workplace, staffers say
Scientist Jim Wilson is synonymous with gene therapy — and for good reason. For decades,…
From the Navy to a neuroscience lab: how a daughter’s diagnosis spurred her mother’s career shift
Carina Block was working an overnight shift in the U.S. Navy base in Japan, guiding…
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…
Sherif Zaki, a legendary disease detective at CDC, dies at 65
Sherif Zaki, a legendary disease detective at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who…
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Opinion: I’m almost always the only Hmong American scientist in the room. Yet I was told I come from a group overrepresented in STEM
I grew up in a small, low-income community surrounded by diverse groups of people, including…
HHMI philanthropy devotes $2 billion to boost inclusion and equity in biomedical sciences
Saying bold steps are needed to improve racial, ethnic, and gender diversity in science, the…
Gender bias toward men in patent awards results in less biomedical innovation for women, study suggests
Research has long shown that fewer patents are awarded to women than to men. Now…
He’s a Stanford professor and a Nobel laureate. Critics say he was dangerously misleading on Covid
One day last August, as they struggled to figure out whether to lift Covid-19 restrictions,…
Opinion: Looking back at 15 years of sharing viral genomes to forge ahead
Anniversaries represent an opportunity for revisiting the past to make a leap forward. I’m using…