Google Grabs Director of U.S. Mental Health Institute
Thomas Insel will expand Google parent company Alphabet’s medical technology efforts to encompass mental health
Thomas Insel will expand Google parent company Alphabet’s medical technology efforts to encompass mental health
Rapid alteration of gene pools could fight disease—and harm ecosystems
Bioengineers have successfully engineered the ribosome, paving the way for synthetic cells
Legislation revised from last year would spare universities from being penalized in the same way as unscrupulous companies
Printers now can unleash creative cookery, with such technology set to become available to consumers later this year
Printers now can unleash creative cookery, with such technology set to become available to consumers later this year
The gene editing method called CRISPR is already used in the lab to insert and remove genome defects in animal embryos
Potential drug kills pathogens such as MRSA—and was discovered by mining "unculturable" bacteria
Geneticists debate whether focus should shift from sequencing genomes to analyzing function
The ability of ezetimibe to combat heart disease previously was in dispute
Research into depression has struggled whereas studies of cancer have thrived. The balance could be shifting
Genetic material shed by tumors can get dumped into healthy cells and transform them
The FDA will continue to monitor safety from health records
An algal enzyme is found to speed up the rate at which plants make food
The retraction represents a setback for those trying to explain a puzzling cluster of sudden-onset narcolepsy reported in 2010 in Europe
Drug regulators are weighting the merits of disclosing preliminary results from experiments to justify a drug's federal approval and then monitor its safety
A biological clock choreographs the plants' daily pursuit of sunlight
It's premature to call the compound, alpha-ketoglutarate, an antiaging drug, but it has been found to extend the longevity of C. elegans by 50 percent
Subjects were taught to suppress their immune responses using physical conditioning
High doses of vitamin C have been found to reduce chemotherapy side effects in humans and to fight tumors in mice
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