Baylor wins 2024 STAT Madness with ‘smoke alarm’ for viral disease outbreaks
It began with injecting monkeys with sewage to see if they developed polio. Building off…
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Male birth control research wins audience over at STAT Madness event
What happens when too many excellent, pioneering researchers enter a room? A little madness. That’s…
Meet the contenders for the STAT Madness 2024 crown. Voting begins March 1
The 64 contestants whose discoveries and innovations have been selected for the 2024 edition of…
Fewer trips to the dentist? NYU College of Dentistry wins 2023 STAT Madness with a gel to treat gum disease
It started with mice molars and a hunch. The New York University College of Dentistry…
Virtual Event: A Conversation with the STAT Madness Crowd Favorite
Editor’s note: A livestream of the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
Research on mice that ‘sweat out’ fat wins STAT Madness for University of Pennsylvania
Pizza rat, watch out: pizza-faced mice are on their way to stealing your crown. A…
‘Skinny, greasy mice,’ artificial cells and tumor mapping: Researchers vie for STAT Madness championship
Were the oily rodents impressive enough? More amazing than the family tree of tumors? Than…
Welcome to STAT Madness 2022
This is our sixth-annual STAT Madness, a bracket-style tournament to find the best innovations in…
Here are the contenders for STAT Madness 2022. Voting begins March 1
Many of the biggest science breakthroughs of 2021 centered, unsurprisingly, around the story of the…
An HIV lab’s pivot to develop a single-dose Covid-19 vaccine wins STAT Madness ‘Editors’ Pick’
On Jan. 10 last year, Dan Barouch and members of his vaccine research lab were…
Researchers pursuing novel treatments for herpes infections and diabetes win STAT Madness
From curing herpes to treating diabetes in a new way, their innovations might one day…
STAT Madness has begun. Vote for the best innovations in biomedicine
The first round of voting begins Monday, March 1 at 6 a.m. EDT and is…
Here are the contenders for STAT Madness 2021. Voting begins Monday
For science, 2020 was a year like no other, as labs around the world shifted…
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…
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…