Ancient DNA found on cave walls In Portugal and Spain
On Jun. 24, 2026, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology report that ancient human DNA…
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Contagious Cancer Likely Crossed an Ocean, Triggering Severe Outbreak in Pacific Northwest Clams
On Jun. 23, 2026 – researchers from the Pacific Northwest Research Institute in Seattle announced they have identified…
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Harvard-led team Makes DNA on a Semiconductor Chip
On Jun. 17, 2026, Harvard researchers announced setting a new benchmark for enzymatic DNA synthesis by writing 64…
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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…
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Can an Alzheimer’s Blood Test Detect Early, Subtle Cognitive Decline?
On May 28, 2026, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) announced that for the first time, researchers…
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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…
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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…
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Penny and Phil Knight’s Gift advances research into brain resilience and aging
On May 12, 2026, Stanford University announced a $90 million gift from Penny and Philip H. Knight, MBA…
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Thousands of previously unknown proteins discovered
On May 6, 2026, a group of international researchers announced they had discovered 1,700 new proteins. The research…
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UVA Study Reveals How New Weight-Loss Drugs Reshape the Brain
On May 6, 2026, In a study published in Nature, a team led by University of Virginia (UVA)…
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USC launches transformational AI initiative with $200 million gift
On May 5, 2026, the University of Southern California (USC) announced a transformational initiative that will leverage AI…
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Study Reports unprecedented view of the immune system’s killer cells
On May 4, 2026, a study conducted by the University of Geneva and the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV)…
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Cosmic Crisp will remain only grown in Washington until 2032
On Apr. 29, 2026, in a letter to growers and nurseries, a Washington State University (WSU) official said…
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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…
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CU Medicine reveals interplay between epigenetic changes and gut microbiome in newborns with neurodevelopment later in life
On Apr. 23, 2026, a multidisciplinary research team from the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Medicine…
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Cancer Center at Illinois Earns Prestigious National Cancer Institute Designation
On Apr. 16, 2026, the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) announced it has been designated as a Basic…
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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…
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Life Science Industry’s Rapid Growth in Washington State Challenged by NIH Budget Cuts
On Apr. 7, 2026, LifeScienceHistory.com, formerly WashingtonLifeScience.com, announces release of a report highlighting the challenges of Washington State’s…
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UCLA researchers develop low-cost blood test to detect multiple cancers and other diseases from a single sample
On Apr. 6, 2026, scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) announce they have developed a…
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Zhang Kai, Yale scientist leaves for China university
On Apr. 2, 2026, Zhang Kai, a rising cryo-electron microscopy researcher, has resigned from his tenure-track position at…
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Johns Hopkins Team Develops Therapeutic, Nasally Delivered DNA Vaccine for Tuberculosis
On Apr. 1, 2026, a research team at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of…
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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…
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Biotechnology | Clinical Research | Diagnostics | Environmental | Infectious Disease | NIH | Non-Profit Research | Rare Disease | Therapeutics | Vaccine
NIH restrictions on foreign research partnerships significantly impacted 1 in 4 U.S. scientists
On Mar. 27, 2026, a STAT survey conducted of nearly 1,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) -supported scientists,…
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‘Dead End’: Radical 20-Year Study Reveals Genetic Cloning Hits a Limit
On Mar. 25, 2026, researchers, led by scientists at the University of Yamanashi in Japan, cloned a single…
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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…
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New enzyme atlas rewrites decades of biology research
On Mar. 23, 2026, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) researchers have led a…
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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…
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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…
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Astrobiologists Find All Five Nucleobases in Asteroid Ryugu
On Mar. 17, 2026, an international research team, including scientists from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and…
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New Genetic Risk Score Better Predicts Diabetes, Obesity and Downstream Complications
On Mar. 16, 2026, investigators from Mass General Brigham announce they have built metabolic polygenic risk scores (PRS) for predicting…
