Agencies will have to show a “direct causal link” to “manifest bodily harm,” not just an increased risk of disease.

Critics argue that NIH directors should have term limits. Others say leadership continuity matters. Who's right?

In the 20th-century statistics wars, Bayesians were underdogs. Now their methods may help speed treatments to market.

As the risk of measles mounts, health care workers face an unusual challenge: Many don't know what it looks like.

The administration had cut crucial funding for mRNA-based therapies. The rest of the world might step in and benefit.

The MAHA movement’s embrace of unorthodox therapies has deep roots in U.S. history, says law professor Lewis Grossman.

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No wonder the European Marine Energy Center, one of the world’s leading agencies for developing and testing wave and tidal power technologies, chose to set up shop here; the nonprofit agency hosts ...

It’s possible that traditional discipline could have prevented the shooting. Henderson had a history of violence and threats against family, students, and teachers. The teenager had recently been ...

Tracking science's inexorable and often unregulated pursuit of engineered cognition.

In the late 1980s, at a federal research facility in Pensacola, Florida, Tamar Barkay used mud in a way that proved revolutionary in a manner she could never have imagined at the time: a crude version ...

Understanding how a healthy brain works can provide insight into how it fails, too. Scientists hope that studying organoids derived from humans with neurodevelopmental disorders — particularly ...