In the Lab

In the Lab Nicholas St. Fleur

Q&A: Meet Catriona Jamieson, the scientist sending tumors into space

In the Lab Annalisa Merelli

Scientists spot an orangutan using a plant to treat his own wound in the wild

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Biological clocks could be the key to longer, healthier lives. But scientists don’t yet agree on what ‘aging’ is

In the Lab Andrew Joseph

STAT Plus: Experimental gene therapy seems to alleviate skeletal defects tied to rare inherited disease, study shows

In the Lab Elizabeth Cooney

STAT Plus: To regrow blood vessels after heart attack, a little transplant of mitochondria goes a long way in mice

In the Lab Annalisa Merelli

Exercise is good for health — but why? A study in rats offers insight

A STAT Investigation Katherine Eban

STAT Plus: Brain biopsies on ‘vulnerable’ patients at Mount Sinai set off alarm bells at FDA, documents show

In the Lab Mark Arsenault — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Former MIT biologist David Sabatini, forced out after sexual harassment accusations, to lead new Boston team

In the Lab Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: After AI protein folding, David Baker’s lab identifies millions of smaller drug candidates

In the Lab Theresa Gaffney

STAT Plus: NIH postdocs will get a raise next year — but not as much as they hoped

In the Lab Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: In a scientific first, researchers use CRISPR base editing to treat liver disease in fetal monkeys

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Dana-Farber retracts string of studies in systematic review of data integrity

In the Lab Nicholas St. Fleur

Q&A: What the noses of mice can tell us about the inheritance of trauma

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: When a cancer drug fails, oncologists often fly blind. A precision technique might light the way

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: New liquid biopsy screening test for pancreatic cancer shows promise in early data

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen

STAT Plus: Cancer is rising among the young. Study suggests it’s because their cells are aging faster

In the Lab Nicholas St. Fleur

Q&A: What ‘de-extinction’ of woolly mammoths can teach us with evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro

In the Lab Jason Mast

STAT Plus: Scientists uncover potential path to treating deadly childhood tumor

In the Lab Deborah Balthazar

Why researchers think human milk could repair the gut microbiome and reduce infections

In the Lab Theresa Gaffney

Gut bacteria could play role in kidney autoimmune disease, study shows

In the Lab Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: Borrowing an idea from cancer immunotherapy, scientists make old-mice immune systems youthful again

Health Annalisa Merelli

Pregnancy increases biological age — but recovery and breastfeeding can undo the damage, study finds

STAT Madness Theresa Gaffney

Male birth control research wins audience over at STAT Madness event

In the Lab Andrew Joseph

STAT Plus: U.K. health officials and researchers try to carve a path for more individualized genetic treatments

Politics Olivia Goldhill

STAT Plus: Fetal tissue research gains in importance as roadblocks multiply

In the Lab Andrew Joseph

STAT Plus: A scientific mystery highlights the blind spots in genomics databases

Health Isabella Cueto

STAT Plus: In small study, baby aspirin cuts fat buildup in liver disease patients

In the Lab Theresa Gaffney

Q&A: Is it time for scientists to rethink how they study sex in research?

In the Lab Nicholas St. Fleur

Q&A: What the brains of songbirds can teach us about human stuttering with neurobiologist Erich Jarvis