Efforts by leaders of the US national academies to adjust to the new political reality have spurred member concerns about ...

The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to ...

Inflammation, thought to be a driver of age-related disease, does not worsen with age in some Indigenous communities.

Hours later, Andrew Nixon, the top spokesperson for the NIH’s parent agency, the US Department of Health and Human Services ...

A drug that outperforms placebo in helping people to lose weight is one of a growing number of next-generation obesity drugs being produced in China. At first, Chinese pharmaceutical companies rushed ...

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The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has not yet rescinded directives that led to the cancellation of more than 2,400 ...

Results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict.

If Stephen Quake gets his way, biologists in the future will spend a lot less time wielding pipettes. “Our goal,” he says, ...

Nature talks to legal and other specialists about the cases and what to watch out for when transporting lab materials.

Researcher used carbon dating to provide evidence that humans had arrived in Brazil much earlier than previously thought.