As of last week (April 4), 465 cases of measles have been reported to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with 78 cases
Pioneering molecular biologist Sydney Brenner has died, aged 92. Among Brenner’s most notable achievements was turning the Caenorhabditis elegans nematode worm into a model system
The number of measles cases in the US so far this year has exceeded the total in 2018 to become the second highest since 2000,
Last September, a group of 27 researchers led by scientists at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas published a paper in Nature reporting a
Sequester and shutdown On March 1, automatic spending cuts—known as the sequester—went into effect in the federal budget. Government agencies across the board were affected.
ABOVE: A healthy adult bimaternal mouse with offspring of her own LEYUN WANG Mice with same-sex parents In research published in October in Cell Stem
In 2018, scientists rode the activist momentum of 2017 to step out of the lab and into the public sphere: There was an unprecedented surge
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists who harnessed evolution in the lab. Frances Arnold, a chemical engineer at the California
2018 Nobel prize in Physiology and Medicine. Read the award winners’ research published in Cell Press journals free: James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo, the
Innovation comes in many forms, molded into various outlooks, adapted to shifting time frames. Sometimes, technological and conceptual progress is undergirded by a more expansive
Today (October 2), Michael Rosbash, Jeffrey Hall, and Michael Young were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for explaining how organisms synch
Today (October 2), Michael Rosbash, Jeffrey Hall, and Michael Young were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for explaining how organisms synch
Cell is pleased to celebrate the 2017 Lasker Awards with articles highlighting the winners’ groundbreaking contributions to science and society. In this year’s collection, which
White stripes, each about a meter wide, painted the land for as far as the eye could see. I was visiting the dry areas of
Several factors have been identified that could be responsible for the collapse of honeybee populations. However, Raymann et al. have identified an antibiotic that appears
George Klein, with his wife, Eva, discovered foundational phenomena in cancer research. He showed that normal cells carry genes, now known as tumour suppressors, that
Last month (November 11), a Japanese team of researchers published a study in Scientific Reportsdescribing the negative outcomes suffered by mice given the vaccine for
Two ongoing disputes brought The Scientist to the courtroom to listen in on the proceedings this year. The first is a defamation suit that former
“All told, [Ricky] Malhotra claimed to have conducted 74 experiments that never happened, and falsified well over 100 Western blots,” Retraction Watchreported today (May 25).
In 2010 the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) shocked the scientific world by creating the first synthetic cell,Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0, which contained slightly over 1
An advisory panel to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) convened Tuesday (November 24) to evaluate the strength of evidence for drisapersen, a drug
A London baby with end-stage leukemia has received a remarkable new cancer treatment: off-the shelf T cells with several gene modifications. Doctors say it’s too
A London baby with end-stage leukemia has received a remarkable new cancer treatment: off-the shelf T cells with several gene modifications. Doctors say it’s too
A revolutionary way of making stem cells claimed last year by Japanese and US researchers never existed in the first place. That is the conclusion
Following a concerted H1N1 vaccination campaign throughout Europe in 2009, children immunized with GlaxoSmithKline’s Pandemrix vaccine, but not Novartis’s Focetria, were at an increased risk
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