China approving innovative drugs at record pace as discovery momentum shifts from the West
On Jul. 24, 2025, The China Times reported that China is making inroads in the race for innovative…
On Jul. 24, 2025, The China Times reported that China is making inroads in the race for innovative…
On Jun. 25, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) moved to reinstate about 900 grants that a…
On Jun. 20, 2025, Vertex Pharmaceuticals announced publication of updated data from the Phase 1/2 portion of the…
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On May 1, 2025, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest funder of biomedical research,…
On May 1, 2025, the staff members at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) were told to “stop…
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On Apr. 1, 2025, layoff notices began arriving for thousands of employees of the sprawling U.S. Department of…
On Mar. 27, 2025, a Nature survey of more than 1,200 scientists, three-quarters of the total respondents are…
On Mar. 24, 2025, Hideyuki Okano, a stem-cell scientist at Keio University in Tokyo, and his colleagues announced…
On Mar. 4, 2025, researchers at a Mass Eye and Ear Institute-led trial announced taking stem cells from…
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On Jan. 29, 2025, researchers from the University Medical Center Göttingen announced they have shown that patches of…
On Jan. 20, 2025, a large international 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents found that in most countries, most…
On Dec. 18, 2024, the National Academies of Sciences released a report showing the current information ecosystem makes…
On Nov. 15, 2024, researchers from Queen Mary University of London and the the University of Hong Kong…
On Nov. 15, 2024, an international research team including scientists from the Max Planck Institute reported that critical…
On Oct. 24, 2024, researchers from Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern reported that ancient viral remnants…
On Sept. 26, 2024, a team of scientists in Peking University in Beijing, China announced that a 25-year-old…
On Mar. 22, 2024, the White House announced the creation of the National Bioeconomy Board. The Board will…
On Mar. 13, 2024, the National Science Board (NSB) published The State of U.S. Science and Engineering 2024,…
On Feb. 23, 2024, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the world’s largest institution dedicated to regenerative…
On Feb. 13, 2024, CRISPR Therapeutics announced that the European Commission had granted conditional marketing authorization to CASGEVY…
On Dec. 8, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two milestone treatments, Casgevy and Lyfgenia,…
On Oct. 27, 2023, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) awarded $42.1 million to fund various translational…
On Oct. 2, 2023, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) announced its approval of a new program…
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On May 31, 2023, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) awarded $10 million to five facilities as…
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