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Examining the life science research that can drive corporate strategy, money and market share. Recent topics include gene therapy, Covid-19, new weight loss drugs, dementia and kidney disease.

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In the Lab Isabella Cueto

‘Visionary’ study finds inflammation, evidence of Covid virus years after infection

In the Lab Alia Sajani

Microbiome composition varies based on sampling time, mouse study finds

Health tech Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: Novel amputation procedure makes walking with a prosthetic leg feel more seamless

In the Lab Rohan Rajeev

Protein maps in cerebrospinal fluid offer insight into Alzheimer’s biology

In the Lab Jason Mast

STAT Plus: Trying to outrun her prion disease, researcher creates powerful epigenetic editor in mice

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Journal retracts study tied to Micronoma’s effort to create cancer blood test

In the Lab Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Oral ketamine tablets effective for treating depression, new study finds

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: New immunotherapy combination could ‘change the landscape’ of cancer treatment

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In the Lab Usha Lee McFarling

Coalition wages campaign for retractions of Richard Lynn’s racist journal articles

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: To feed an AI that designs new enzymes, Basecamp Research hunts rare proteins at the world’s end

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Exclusive Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: New AI for biopsies can analyze microscopy images, talk to pathologists about your tumor

In the Lab Rohan Rajeev

Three scientists win Kavli Prize for nanoscience in biomedicine

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: House Republicans press for new guardrails on ‘gain-of-function’ research by NIH

Health tech Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: Tweezers? Wrenches? Researchers plot prosthetics’ future with tools, not hands

In the Lab Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: Watch: How Harvard researchers boosted an ALS patient’s independence with a box and a balloon

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen

STAT Plus: Stephen Quake on the Chan Zuckerberg quest to cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by 2100

In the Lab Nicholas Florko and Sarah Owermohle

What the rescheduling of marijuana might — and might not — mean for scientific research

Health tech Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: Scientists install ‘window’ in the skull to record brain activity using ultrasound

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: ASCO preview: a promising solid tumor CAR-T, an AI patient navigator, and improving palliative care

In the Lab Annalisa Merelli

STAT Plus: New antiviral works against coronaviruses in mice, but human testing will have to wait

In the Lab Angus Chen

Black Americans’ risk for breast cancer gains clarity in analysis of 40,000 genomes

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence and Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: A novel spinal cord stimulator treats paralysis without surgery. FDA will rule on it soon

In the Lab Annalisa Merelli and Jonathan Wosen

Animal studies lend support to an innovative HIV vaccine strategy — but there’s still a long way to go

In the Lab Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: ChatGPT for genomes: introducing a CRISPR-designing generative AI

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Data integrity watchdogs call for stronger safeguards in scientific journals

In the Lab Elizabeth Cooney

To detect risk of stroke, tiny probe acts ‘like a microscope’ inside brain’s blood vessels

In the Lab Adam Piore — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Harvard scientists unveil the most detailed map of the brain ever: ‘It’s an alien world inside your own head’

Biotech Jason Mast

STAT Plus: Q&A with Jennifer Adair, researcher on a mission to increase global access to gene therapies

In the Lab Elizabeth Cooney

Cell therapy fails to slow early type 1 diabetes, but safety is established