Regulators are moving toward policies targeting ultra-processed foods, but a fundamental issue remains unresolved: what ...

Hawley's bill ( S.4066) would withdraw U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the drug mifepristone for pregnancy termination and create a right of action for women to sue abortion pill ...

Inside a diseased cell, the genes are in chaos. Some are receiving signals to overproduce a protein. Others are reducing ...

When you walk into a doctor’s office, you assume something so basic that it barely needs articulation: your doctor has touched a body before. They have studied anatomy, seen organs and learned the ...

A mosquito finds its target with the help of certain cues in its environment, such as a person's silhouette and the carbon ...

Walk down the aisles of many grocery stores and you’re liable to see claims about products that are “good for gut health,” from yogurt and kombucha to supplements and even sodas. But despite its ...

Entering a cell and watching its entire inner machinery at work, how DNA is copied, how proteins are assembled, or how it splits in two, has been, for decades, an impossible dream. Now, scientists at ...

In 1995, blueberries were merely a fruit. But after executives at the Wild Blueberry Association of North America received a government study ranking the berry near the top of a new federal index ...

A new computational tool infers changes occurring at the ends of the chromosomes housing our DNA. It does so by detecting ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. On paper, little appears to have changed for UMass Chan Medical ...