In the Lab

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: To feed an AI that designs new enzymes, Basecamp Research hunts rare proteins at the world’s end

In the Lab Deborah Balthazar

With placenta-on-a-chip, researchers hope to gauge how drugs and toxins impact pregnancy

Exclusive Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: New AI for biopsies can analyze microscopy images, talk to pathologists about your tumor

In the Lab Rohan Rajeev

Three scientists win Kavli Prize for nanoscience in biomedicine

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: House Republicans press for new guardrails on ‘gain-of-function’ research by NIH

Health tech Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: Tweezers? Wrenches? Researchers plot prosthetics’ future with tools, not hands

In the Lab Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: How Harvard researchers boosted an ALS patient’s independence with a box and a balloon

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen

STAT Plus: Stephen Quake on the Chan Zuckerberg quest to cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by 2100

In the Lab Megan Molteni

A new discovery about carbon dioxide is challenging decades-old ventilation doctrine

In the Lab Nicholas Florko and Sarah Owermohle

What the rescheduling of marijuana might — and might not — mean for scientific research

Health tech Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: Scientists install ‘window’ in the skull to record brain activity using ultrasound

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: ASCO preview: a promising solid tumor CAR-T, an AI patient navigator, and improving palliative care

In the Lab Annalisa Merelli

STAT Plus: New antiviral works against coronaviruses in mice, but human testing will have to wait

In the Lab Angus Chen

Black Americans’ risk for breast cancer gains clarity in analysis of 40,000 genomes

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence and Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: A novel spinal cord stimulator treats paralysis without surgery. FDA will rule on it soon

In the Lab Annalisa Merelli and Jonathan Wosen

Animal studies lend support to an innovative HIV vaccine strategy — but there’s still a long way to go

In the Lab Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: ChatGPT for genomes: introducing a CRISPR-designing generative AI

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Data integrity watchdogs call for stronger safeguards in scientific journals

In the Lab Elizabeth Cooney

To detect risk of stroke, tiny probe acts ‘like a microscope’ inside brain’s blood vessels

In the Lab Adam Piore — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Harvard scientists unveil the most detailed map of the brain ever: ‘It’s an alien world inside your own head’

Biotech Jason Mast

STAT Plus: Q&A with Jennifer Adair, researcher on a mission to increase global access to gene therapies

In the Lab Elizabeth Cooney

Cell therapy fails to slow early type 1 diabetes, but safety is established

In the Lab Nicholas St. Fleur

Q&A: Meet Catriona Jamieson, the scientist sending tumors into space

In the Lab Annalisa Merelli

Scientists spot an orangutan using a plant to treat his own wound in the wild

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Biological clocks could be the key to longer, healthier lives. But scientists don’t yet agree on what ‘aging’ is

In the Lab Andrew Joseph

STAT Plus: Experimental gene therapy seems to alleviate skeletal defects tied to rare inherited disease, study shows

In the Lab Elizabeth Cooney

STAT Plus: To regrow blood vessels after heart attack, a little transplant of mitochondria goes a long way in mice

In the Lab Annalisa Merelli

Exercise is good for health — but why? A study in rats offers insight

A STAT Investigation Katherine Eban

STAT Plus: Brain biopsies on ‘vulnerable’ patients at Mount Sinai set off alarm bells at FDA, documents show