Gene therapy has proved to be a safe long-term treatment for haemophilia B. The benefits of a single dose persist for at ...

The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government ...

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There might be a paradox in the biology of ageing. As humans grow older, their metabolisms tend to slow, they lose muscle ...

At last, nearly ten years on, England is taking action. From 1 August, England’s national regulator for higher education, the ...

Missile attacks have damaged laboratories and hampered scientists’ ability to do research in both Israel and Iran, as the ...

A competition to develop computational approaches to detect ‘novelty’ in published papers will help metascientists to study ...

The Article demonstrating that the microbial metabolite ADP-heptose might be linked to a condition associated with ageing in humans represents a major advance in understanding how microorganisms might ...

Analysis of almost three million children captures when ‘mathematical gender gap’ first emerges and could help focus efforts ...

Human–animal chimaeras are an exciting yet challenging area of research. Human cells are coaxed to grow in animal embryos, allowing researchers to study human tissue development. But the long-term ...

Trafficking of scales for traditional medicine plays a relatively small part in the hunting of pangolins in Nigeria.

To celebrate the centenary of this event, several hundred researchers have descended on the island to take part in a ...