Germline genetic screening can identify whether a patient with cancer has inherited genetic alterations in a gene or genes ...

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common form of kidney cancer, accounting for about 90% of kidney cancers. It develops ...

This year's award recognizes basic discoveries that have been impactful for chemists working in industrial and pharmaceutical manufacturing.

A new analysis tracking three decades of public discussion about GM finds economic arguments have increasingly crowded out cultural and ethical questions.

The short-legged horned toad (Boulenophrys brachykolos), listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, is the only known small frog ...

Clarke famously wrote, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Kraig's approach gives that observation a wonderfully small, many-legged illustration. On September 29, ...

By inserting certain proteins into the membrane of nerve cells, the three laureates, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and ...

Systems biology is the study of biological systems whose behaviour cannot be reduced to the linear sum of their parts’ functions. Systems biology does not necessarily involve large numbers of ...

Nobel-winning insights into optogenetics: how light-controlled genes reveal brain circuits, memories, and potential medical breakthroughs.

The ASP is part of a broader corporate strategy to move towards problem-solving partnerships in sectors such as life sciences ...

Boston native Karl Deisseroth won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for helping pioneer optogenetics, a breakthrough in brain ...