Gene therapy has proved to be a safe long-term treatment for haemophilia B. The benefits of a single dose persist for at ...

There might be a paradox in the biology of ageing. As humans grow older, their metabolisms tend to slow, they lose muscle ...

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At last, nearly ten years on, England is taking action. From 1 August, England’s national regulator for higher education, the ...

Missile attacks have damaged laboratories and hampered scientists’ ability to do research in both Israel and Iran, as the ...

The Article demonstrating that the microbial metabolite ADP-heptose might be linked to a condition associated with ageing in humans represents a major advance in understanding how microorganisms might ...

The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government ...

A competition to develop computational approaches to detect ‘novelty’ in published papers will help metascientists to study ...

Human–animal chimaeras are an exciting yet challenging area of research. Human cells are coaxed to grow in animal embryos, allowing researchers to study human tissue development. But the long-term ...

Models suggest that human-caused global warming would have been detectable in the 19th century with today's know-how.

Trafficking of scales for traditional medicine plays a relatively small part in the hunting of pangolins in Nigeria.

Researchers have reported growing hearts containing human cells in pig embryos for the first time. The embryos survived for ...