In the Lab

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

In the Lab Mark Arsenault — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Former MIT biologist David Sabatini, forced out after sexual harassment accusations, to lead new Boston team

In the Lab Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: After AI protein folding, David Baker’s lab identifies millions of smaller drug candidates

In the Lab Theresa Gaffney

STAT Plus: NIH postdocs will get a raise next year — but not as much as they hoped

In the Lab Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: In a scientific first, researchers use CRISPR base editing to treat liver disease in fetal monkeys

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Dana-Farber retracts string of studies in systematic review of data integrity

In the Lab Nicholas St. Fleur

Q&A: What the noses of mice can tell us about the inheritance of trauma

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: When a cancer drug fails, oncologists often fly blind. A precision technique might light the way

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: New liquid biopsy screening test for pancreatic cancer shows promise in early data

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen

STAT Plus: Cancer is rising among the young. Study suggests it’s because their cells are aging faster

In the Lab Nicholas St. Fleur

Q&A: What ‘de-extinction’ of woolly mammoths can teach us with evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro

In the Lab Jason Mast

STAT Plus: Scientists uncover potential path to treating deadly childhood tumor

In the Lab Deborah Balthazar

Why researchers think human milk could repair the gut microbiome and reduce infections

In the Lab Theresa Gaffney

Gut bacteria could play role in kidney autoimmune disease, study shows

In the Lab Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: Borrowing an idea from cancer immunotherapy, scientists make old-mice immune systems youthful again