Every time a cell divides, it must copy its DNA with extraordinary precision. But this process is constantly challenged by DNA damage. Among the most dangerous lesions are DNA interstrand crosslinks ...

The world of science has been stuck in an existential crisis over whether we actually know the things we thought we knew. Re-running an old study today doesn't always yield the same result. Same with ...

The replication crisis in psychology refers to concerns about the credibility of findings in psychological science. The term, which originated in the early 2010s, denotes that findings in behavioral ...

Back in high school chemistry, I remember waiting with my bench partner for crystals to form on our stick in the cup of blue solution. Other groups around us jumped with joy when their crystals formed ...

The Presidential Commission to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) released a report on children’s health last month, and it uses the word “crisis” no fewer than 40 times within 72 pages. One of these ...

It is not an exaggeration to say that the development of antiretroviral therapy is one of the most significant accomplishments in the history of medicine. In the early days of the HIV pandemic, newly ...

The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1) has a large global burden and in some key ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HERVs, or human endogenous retroviruses, make up around 8% of the human genome, left behind as a result of infections that ...

I read with interest your article on the White House’s response to the replication crisis in biomedical science. You cite the Center for Open Science’s project, which couldn’t replicate 54% of ...

Embryonic stem (ES) cells are pluripotent stem cells that can produce all cell types of an organism. ES cells proliferate rapidly and have been thought to experience high levels of intrinsic ...

On Wednesday, US Sens. Chris Coons (D-Del.), Marsha Blackburn (R.-Tenn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO ...