Zhijian “James” Chen received this year’s Albert Lasker Award for discovering cGAS, an enzyme which scopes out DNA-based ...

A new study employs a multiomic approach to study how cytomegalovirus activation impacts breast milk bioactive factors and ...

Amielle Moreno earned her doctorate in neuroscience from Emory University and has dedicated her career to science communication, news coverage, and medical writing and editing. She is a published ...

AI-driven technologies can help scientists accomplish efficient research workflows, from experimental design to data ...

F rom fruit flies that survive a mere two weeks to the giant tortoises of the tropics that can live for nearly 200 years, ...

Danielle is an Assistant Editor at The Scientist. She has a background in neuroscience and molecular psychiatry. She has previously written for BioTechniques News, The Scientist, and Drug Discovery ...

The microtubule-associated protein tau is commonly implicated in neurodegenerative conditions called tauopathies, such as Alzheimer’s disease, where abnormal and hyperphosphorylated tau aggregates ...

For years, neuroscience research overlooked female subjects, creating a significant bias. Today, researchers actively rebalance the scales with more inclusive and diverse studies. The Dynamic Lives of ...

Many cancer types are caused by gene fusions that bring together parts of two different genes, often changing the activity of one of the partners. Although fusion transcripts result from structural ...