For the past decade, evidence has suggested that Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, could stem an epidemic of throat cancer. The FDA has now approved its use for that purpose.

The false claim that a 2-year-old girl died after receiving a second dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is based on an unverified VAERS report.

In a rare observed case of self-treatment in a wild animal, scientists documented an orangutan applying a medicinal plant to a wound on his face.

Pfizer and partner BioNTech said Monday that their vaccine against Covid-19 was strongly effective, exceeding expectations with results that are likely to be met with cautious excitement — and relief.

This is "biology's century," @matthewherper writes. But we’re approaching a moment when changes in what we understand are every bit as terrifying as exhilarating.

Carolyn Bertozzi isn't only a great chemist. She's also a prize-worthy mentor and role model.

New data offers the first evidence of an effective individualized cancer vaccine based on mRNA, the technology used in the Covid shots.

Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley and UCSF professor and Berkeley Lab faculty scientist, shares the prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier for their discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 as a tool for making targeted...

Many US healthcare workers started this year already suffering from burnout, but the worst was yet to come.

An investigational antiviral pill reduced the chances that patients newly diagnosed with Covid-19 would be hospitalized by about 50%.

Pfizer reported full results of a 2,246-patient study of its Covid pill in a press release Tuesday, showing it retained the 89% efficacy at preventing hospitalization and death reported in an earlier...

"I spoke out for patient safety and as a result I got terminated."

Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the former Genentech executive and CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, say there's plenty of reason to worry about the #coronavirus — but also plenty the public can do.

Novo Nordisk’s obesity drug Wegovy cut the risk of major heart complications by 20% in a closely-watched trial, results that could streamline insurance coverage and spur even greater demand for the...

President Biden will announce a plan today to push the uptake of boosters, make at-home testing free, and deploy emergency response teams to combat the Omicron variant during the winter.

In a large cohort of military service members, infection with Epstein-Barr virus increased the likelihood of developing multiple sclerosis by more than 32-fold, a team led by Harvard scientists...

There is no evidence to support Trump’s accusation, and top biotechnology executives were fast to praise the speed at which the FDA has moved.

Rick Bright, the Trump administration vaccine expert turned whistleblower, resigned from the federal government Tuesday, according to a press release from his lawyer.

Textor was a longtime Morley Safer collaborator

Pfizer has countless scientists working on its Covid-19 vaccines. But it's counting on one to give it an edge: Kathrin Jansen.

I have spinal muscular atrophy. Critics of the $2 million new gene therapy are missing the point.

By threatening to influence the scientific standards for a covid-19 vaccine, the administration damages public health.

Dermatologists who specialize in hair loss say that the key ingredient in a topical treatment worked even better when taken orally at a low dose.

Johnson & Johnson published updated early data on its Covid-19 vaccine, showing that it provided participants in a clinical trial with at least some immunity after one dose. The question is whether...

South Africa is halting its rollout of the AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, following a new analysis that suggests the shot “provides minimal protection” against mild disease caused by the new...

STAT reporters will live-blogging an FDA advisory committee’s meeting on Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine.

Lacks’ cells have allowed for advances in cancer treatment, AIDS research, cloning, stem-cell studies and so much more.

Douglas Melton, one of the leading stem cell researchers in the world, is leaving Harvard to join Vertex Pharmaceuticals, to pursue his deeply personal, decades-long quest to create therapies for...

An investigational Alzheimer’s disease treatment from Biogen and Eisai slowed the rate of cognitive decline by 27% in a clinical trial, the companies said Tuesday, meeting the goals of a closely...

Researchers have reported the largest-ever one-year decline in the U.S. cancer death rate, a drop they credited to advances in lung-tumor treatments.

In a large Scottish study, no cases of cervical cancer were found among women who received HPV vaccines before they turned 14.

With $3 billion, some of the biggest names in biotech are launching a global company aimed at disease "reversal."

The median age of survival for Canadians with cystic fibrosis was 50, and only 40 for Americans, researchers found after six years of analysis.

Dr. Sean Conley, President Trump’s physician, said the president had “continued to improve” and could be discharged from Walter Reed medical center as soon as Monday. Dr. Craig Spencer, director of...

Eight months into his tenure, Johnson & Johnson’s R&D chief is putting a big emphasis on medicines for cancer, treatment-resistant depression, and autoimmune disease.

A venture capitalist has raised $800 million for a new company that aims to transform biotech and more efficiently manufacture treatments made from viruses, genetic material, or a patient’s own cells.

In medicine, virality means false hopes, dashed dreams, and a whole lot of hype. We are desperate for a solution.

Essential workers are likely to move ahead of adults 65 and older and people with high-risk medical conditions when the Centers for Disease Control signs off on Covid-19 vaccine priority lists.

Scientific articles that get downloaded from the scholarly piracy website Sci-Hub tend to receive more citations, according to a new study published in

Punitive efforts to ensure strict adherence to complicated eligibility rules endangers people who could be protected.

People are dying from coronavirus because we’re not fast enough at clinical research

Two congenitally deaf children can hear after being treated with a gene therapy, according to new data from an ongoing clinical trial.

In a study in southern Africa which enrolled 2,600 women, participants who received J&J's vaccine were 25% less likely to become infected with HIV compared to the placebo group. The results were not...

Pfizer and BioNTech have wrapped up the efficacy portion of their Covid-19 vaccine study, concluding that the vaccine prevented 95% of cases of the disease.

Some scientists worry probiotics aren’t as innocuous as they seem — and might be affecting the way other medicines work in the body.

Michael Becker, the patient advocate and former biotech CEO who passed away this week, urged audiences to think beyond the word “data” when talking about studies of patients.

To defend against criminal fraud charges, Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes is trying to put investigative journalism on trial.

A computational biologist thinks potentially half the globe may contract Omicron over the coming weeks and months.