Three life-science prizes were awarded for advances in gene therapies. Opthalmologists Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire, and ...

Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify ...

Study in mice suggests that B cells help regulate muscle performance. Immune cells that help to fight off foreign invaders in ...

A congressional hearing covered the rise of paper mills and the costs of open-access publishing — but there was little ...

Many Democrats making the switch to politics are motivated by the Trump administration’s cuts to science — whereas energy and ...

Using artificial-intelligence to teach other models can be cheaper and faster than building them from scratch, but this ...

A team developing light-sensitive cancer drugs has won a US$2-million Quantum for Bio (Q4Bio) prize for demonstrating a ...

The models are designed to predict someone’s risk of diabetes or stroke. A few might already have been used on patients.

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

Researchers found sex differences in the activity of genes within cortical neurons (pictured) and other brain cells. Credit: ...

Quantum science and AI research are big winners just a year after the US funding giant slashed its Graduate Research ...

Efforts to boost tree cover and restore degraded land globally need stable funding and time to learn from failure.