NIH Scientists and Collaborators Report Positive Results in Monkeys One shot of an experimental vaccine made from two Ebola virus gene segments incorporated into a chimpanzee cold virus vect... Read more
As proof-of-principle, the team designs a potent anti-cancer compound. In research that could ultimately lead to many new medicines, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Researc... Read more
New analysis shows Asia gaining, due to increased support from both government, industry The United States’ global share of biomedical research spending fell from 51 percent in 2007 to 45 pe... Read more
A decade of neglecting the National Institutes of Health budget has left a sector of science scrabbling to survive I am a mass murderer of squid. I have cut off more Loligo pealei heads than... Read more
Brain Stimulation in Rats Suggest New, Unconventional Therapy for Human Cocaine Addiction By stimulating one part of the brain with laser light, researchers at the National Institutes of Hea... Read more
Just before any predictable disaster hits, it’s almost impossible to take even a medium term view. With the sequester bearing down on us in a couple of days, identifying the immediate conseq... Read more
A bus just passed by. I think I have a headache. This is the sort of inane information that the most tweet-happy among us rush to share with the rest of the indifferent world. But when colle... Read more
Eliminating malaria might then prove impossible Evidence that the most deadly species of malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is becoming resistant to the front line treatment for malari... Read more