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Two 'Big Science' NIH Programs Get the Ax

Budget woes have prompted cuts to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and Protein Structure Initiative, and brought scrutiny overall to expensive programs

The BMI Is Outdated, but It Still Works

The flawed body mass index remains a useful predictor of health

Influenza: Trying to Catch a Moving Target

Despite decades of research decoding the influenza virus—and great advances in treating and vaccinating against the disease—this infectious pathogen continues both to surprise and confound us...

New Limb Regeneration Insight Surprises Scientists

Reactivating a dormant gene enhances mice’s healing abilities

Precision Gene Editing Paves Way for Transgenic Monkeys

Despite political challenges, engineered primates could be better disease models than mice

How Cancers Grow [Video]

Researchers believe at least six key things have to go wrong for most tumors to develop

Could a Simple Ankle Sensor Help with Parkinson’s Symptoms?

Book Excerpt: George Johnson Explores the Latest Discoveries about Cancer

Researchers have uncovered processes that make cancer even more complicated than they thought it was

What Is 4-D Printing? [Video]

An M.I.T. lab is tweaking the idea of 3-D printing with the help of smart materials that continue to change even after they leave the printer

FDA Moves to Avert Drug Shortages

New actions aim to help the agency respond to quality control issues that force drugmakers to discard medicines

Sophisticated Sticker Spots Salmonella

An invention by physicists could make testing for bacteria as simple as slapping a sticker on food and waving a handheld scanner. Wayt Gibbs reports

Why We Must Keep Track of Errors in Electronic Medical Records

Digital medical records can easily go awry, but nobody is tracking the errors

One Year after Sandy, Uneven Recovery at New York University's Labs

Walking through Gordon Fishell’s lab now, you would never know that much of his research was swept away by last year’s superstorm. Other scientists at New York University’s medical center cannot say the same...

Paying Kidney Donors Is Cost-Effective, Researchers Say

Researchers found a strategy of paying living donors that would save the health system $340 over the lifetime of each patient

Cacophony of Shipping Noise Found in Humpback, Killer Whale Habitat

Researchers guess that the whales' acoustic spaces are being reduced by 50 percent or 80 percent

Bid to Use Common Anesthetic for Executions Threatens U.S. Patients

The politics of capital punishment is affecting drug manufacturing decisions and forcing doctors to worry about sources of anesthesia, such as propofol

How Mummies Lived--and Died--Revealed by Modern Medical Technology [Slide Show]

Specialists use CT scans and 3-D printing to study the maladies of mummified corpses

How Mummies Lived--and Died--Revealed by Modern Medical Technology [Slide Show]

Specialists use CT scans and 3-D printing to study the maladies of mummified corpses

Researchers Keep Mum on Botulism Discovery

Publishing all the scientific details, they say, might show terrorists how to create a bioweapon

Alabama Zoo to Probe Death of Artificially Conceived Rhino Calf

A necropsy will be performed on a four-month old rhinoceros believed to have been the first of its species to be born through artificial insemination in the United States, officials from the Montgomery Zoo in Alabama said on Monday...