More than 100 clinical trials put stem cells for regenerative medicine to the test. It’s a turning point for a field beset ...

Lizzie Collingham is a historian of food and bye-fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, UK. Her books include The Hungry Empire ...

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Gene-editing technologies for cancer and blood disorders are maturing a little more than a year after the first CRISPR drug ...

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D models of Australopithecus afarensis suggest the muscular adaptations that made modern humans better runners.

Paper on hydroxychloroquine led by French researcher Didier Raoult is second-most-cited study ever to be withdrawn.

The system meant to ensure that international agreements are informed by a consensus of rigorous research is under severe ...

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In the study, which has taken two years and was posted on 26 November to the medRxiv preprint server 1, a team of more than ...

Researchers have identified molecules circulating in the blood that are associated with age-related cellular deterioration 1.