Family History Increases Cancer Risk in BRCA-Tested Patients
On Jul. 30, 2026, a study led by Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators found that women who test…
-
-
Researchers show how early RNA-based life may have repaired its genome, providing insight into the origins of life
On Jul. 13, 2026, In a study published in Nature Communications, Saurja DasGupta, a biochemist at the University…
-
Researchers discover new form of hereditary prostate cancer
On July 9, 2026, researchers at the University of British Columbia announced they have identified a new form of hereditary…
-
New genomic method to track disease outbreaks globally
On Jul. 9, 2026, Wellcome Sanger Institute scientists and their collaborators announced Phylo-Plex, a new computational method to…
-
Agriculture | Biotechnology | Environmental | EPA | FDA | Forestry | Genomics | Implants | Infectious Disease | Marine Science | Medical Device | Oncology | Organ Transplant | Organoids | Pharmaceutical | Quantum | Robotics | Software | Stem Cell | U.S. Congress | Vaccine | Veterinary | Women's Health
New PhD Admissions Data Show Threat to U.S. STEM Workforce, Breakthroughs and Innovations
On Jul. 7, 2026, the Association of American Universities (AAU) released new data showing that major research universities…
-
Artificial Intelligence | Biotechnology | CRISPR | CRO | Diagnostics | Genomics | Imaging | Infectious Disease | Medicine | Nanotechnology | Neurology | Oncology | Organoids | Pharmaceutical | Robotics | Stem Cell | Therapeutics | Vaccine | Veterinary | Women's Health
Anthropic debuts AI-driven pharma R&D tool, Claude Science
On Jul. 1, 2026, tech giant Anthropic announced it has extended its foray into the life sciences space…
-
Colossal Biosciences and US Fish and Wildlife Service Partner to Biobank Every Endangered Species
On Jun. 25, 2026, Colossal Biosciences US Fish and Wildlife Service announced a partnership that aims to collect…
-
Ancient teeth from Siberia rewrite the plague’s timeline, dating back to over 5,500 years ago
On Jun. 17, 2026, scientists announced they have have found the oldest known evidence of the plague, which…
-
Genomes from Oceania offer new clues to human evolution
On Jun. 11, 2026, a new Yale University-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses…
-
Artificial Intelligence | Biotechnology | Clinical Research | Genomics | Pharmaceutical | Therapeutics
Google DeepMind, Google.org and Sanger Institute to launch new AI consortium for genomics
On Jun. 8, 2026, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Google.org, and Google DeepMind announced they are partnering up to…
-
Debugging California: Fighting mosquitoes with mosquitoes
On Jun. 4, 2026, a program called Debug—run by Google’s health research arm—has applied to the EPA to…
-
Caught in the act: a gene jumps into the void
On Jun. 4, 2026, scientists from the Max Planck Institute report that genes are not passed on exclusively…
-
Scientists Map Proteins From Billion-Year-Old Organism and Discover New Links to Rare Diseases
On May 27, 2026, a University of Texas at Austin-led team has identified genes by comparing groups of…
-
Biotechnology | Cloning | CRISPR | Environmental | Genomics
Artificial Womb Construction Nearing Completion
On May 19, 2026, Colossal Biosciences announced it is developing a functional artificial womb capable of growing a…
-
Biotechnology | Cloning | CRISPR | Environmental | Genomics
Colossal Biosciences Artificial Egg Hatches 26 Chickens in Breakthrough Step Toward Dodo and Moa De-Extinction
On May 19, 2026, Colossal Biosciences announced their artificial egg — a silicone-membrane synthetic shell system — successfully…
-
Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine
On May 18, 2026, scientists from the University of York and University of Copenhagen announced they have uncovered…
-
Central-Eastern Europe’s oldest Neanderthal group identified by DNA taken from teeth
On May 13, 2026, DNA recovered from Neanderthal teeth found in Stajnia Cave in southern Poland shows the…
-
Debug by Google expands Singapore site to accelerate AI and automation inglobal fight against mosquito-borne diseases
On May 12, 2026, Debug, a Google initiative to reduce mosquito-borne diseases,announced the expansion of its research and…
-
Biotechnology | Cloning | CRISPR | Genomics | Veterinary
Colossal Biosciences Is Working to Bring Back the Bluebuck, an Antelope Hunted to Extinction in 1800
On Apr. 30, 2026, Colossal Biosciences, the world’s de-extinction company, announced that it is working to de-extinct the…
-
Artificial Intelligence | Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Disease | Genomics | Neurology | Non-Profit Research | Oncology | Therapeutics
Biohub Launches the Virtual Biology Initiative to Galvanize a Global Effort to Create the Open Data Foundation for AI-Accelerated Biolog
On Apr. 29, 2026, Biohub announced the Virtual Biology Initiative, a landmark five-year initiative to galvanize a global…
-
Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Disease | Genomics | Oncology | Therapeutics
Roche Expands Foundation Medicine With Acquisition of SAGA Diagnostics’ Tumor-Informed Molecular Residual Disease Platform for $595 million
On Apr. 15, 2026, Foundation Medicine, an independent affiliate of the Roche group, announced it is set to…
-
Biotechnology | CDC | Chemistry | Genomics
Hackers meet their match: New DNA encryption protects engineered cells from within
On Apr. 11, 2026, in Science Advances, a team of U.S. researchers present a new approach to genetically…
-
Genome loaded onto a quantum computer in world first
On Apr. 9, 2026, scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Melbourne,…
-
Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Genomics | Infectious Disease | Medicine | Nanotechnology | Neurology | NIH | Non-Profit Research | Oncology | Pharmaceutical | Rare Disease | Stem Cell | Therapeutics | U.S. Congress | Vaccine | Women's Health
Trump administration drops court fight to cap NIH payments for research overhead costs
On Apr. 8, 2026, the Trump administration will not be asking the Supreme Court to take up its…
-
Artificial Intelligence | Biotechnology | Cloning | CRISPR | Diagnostics | Genomics | Implants | Infectious Disease | Life Science History | Medical Device | Nanotechnology | Neurology | NIH | Non-Profit Research | Pharmaceutical | Quantum | Therapeutics | U.S. Congress
China Tops U.S. in R&D Spending
On Mar. 31, 2026, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), reports that China has officially crept…
-
Canine companions: revealing the genetic history of our first friends
On Mar. 24, 2026, researchers at the Francis Crick Institute report that the largest ancient DNA study of…
-
DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins
On Mar. 24, 2026, a study published in Nature describes how researchers are pulling clues from genetic material…
-
An analysis of 2.2 million people reveals shared and substance-specific genetic pathways for addiction risk
On Mar. 20, 2026, researchers of a Rutgers Health–led study led by Holly Poore, a faculty instructor of psychiatry…
-
Biotechnology | CDC | Clinical Research | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | Genomics | Infectious Disease | Vaccine
CDC Reports Detection and Surveillance of New SARS-CoV-2 Variant BA.3.2
On Mar. 19, 2026, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that as of February 11,…
-
Agriculture | Artificial Intelligence | Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Environmental | FDA | Genomics | Imaging | Infectious Disease | Medical Device | Medicine | Nanotechnology | Neurology | NIH | Non-Profit Research | Oncology | Pharmaceutical | Therapeutics | U.S. Congress | Vaccine | Veterinary | Women's Health
National survey of NIH-funded researchers shows precarious state of U.S. science — ‘This is like the Titanic’
On Mar. 19, 2026, a nationwide STAT survey of federally funded researchers reveals that, a year after Donald…
