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Rise and shine, another busy day is on the way. However, this is also shaping up as a beautiful day as well, …

Ribosomes, the cellular machines that assemble proteins, are made from dozens of proteins and RNA molecules. Putting all of those pieces together …

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive brain disorder and a leading cause of dementia worldwide. Despite years of research, there is still …

A woman dressed as a mifepristone pill is at rally outside the US Supreme Court on April 2, 2025. Drew Angerer/AFP via …

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A rodent-borne illness is suspected of causing an outbreak aboard a cruise ship that has killed three people and sickened others. …

This aerial picture shows a general view of a cruise ship off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on …

First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech insiders, health …

There is a troubling contradiction at the heart of the global transition to a cleaner, greener, tech-driven future: Modern technologies — everything …

Nearly 400 physicians from Yale Medicine were included in Connecticut Magazine’s 2026 “Top Doctors” list, which highlights physicians across a range of …

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a built in process that can remove existing amyloid plaques from the brains of …

Nicole Saphier, President Trump’s nominee for surgeon general. Theo Wargo/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Theo Wargo/Getty Images President Trump has nominated …

A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing …

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For decades, the race to transplant a donor liver has been measured not in days, but in hours. A surgeon gets the …

Mifepristone tablets sit on a table at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Ames, Iowa, on July 18, 2024. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption …

Pioneering geneticist J. Craig Venter has died at the age of 79, according to his namesake research institute. K.C. Alfred/The San Diego …

When she was a child, MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt would spend summers on her grandparents’ farm in rural Alabama outside Birmingham. The …

Credit: Denis Pobytov / DigitalVision Vectors / Getty Historically, the global population with kidney disease — 850 million people, at present — …

Alzheimer’s disease is often described in numbers, with millions of people affected, cases rising quickly, and costs reaching into the trillions. For …

Researchers tested an AI model against ER doctors and found the model outperformed the humans. shapecharge/E+/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption shapecharge/E+/Getty …

Rise and shine, everyone, another busy day is on the way. Sadly, gray skies are hovering over the Pharmalot campus, but our …

The weight-management drug Wegovy has become widely used and now comes in a convenient pill form — but recently, a study flagged …

TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency are being chased out and departments …

Ethical aspects The TCGA, PLCO and NLST cohorts are open-source datasets. Access to PLCO and NLST was applied for via the Cancer …

Micro-ultrasound is a high-resolution imaging technique that can help urologists target prostate biopsies more precisely—often without needing a separate MRI. In this …

Researchers at MIT have identified an unexpected effect in optical physics that could lead to a faster and more detailed way to …

Natural disasters like Hurricane Helene which struck areas of the Southeast in 2024, including Asheville, N.C., can pose an additional crisis for …

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced efforts to make clinical trials more efficient, starting by reviewing data in …

Six MIT affiliates — Denisse Córdova Carrizales SM ’26; Ria Das ’21, MNG ’22; Ronak Desai; Stacy Godfreey-Igwe ’22; Arya Rao; and …

Chappell, L. C., Cluver, C. A., Kingdom, J. & Tong, S. Pre-eclampsia. Lancet 398, 341–354 (2021). Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Chaiworapongsa, …