The Golden Goose Awards recognize research projects that may appear obscure at first, but ultimately lead to major scientific breakthroughs. The three recipients of the Golden Goose Award for 2024 ...

Amidst ongoing budget brinkmanship in Washington, House and Senate panels have proposed significant cuts in federal funding for basic scientific research. That would be a grave mistake for our ...

Usha Lee McFarling is a former STAT reporter. Columbia University announced Thursday that its medical school has received $400 million to fund a new institute for basic biomedical research to fuel ...

In a ceremony held last month, the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize was awarded to Wesley Sundquist, PhD, Leo T. and Barbara K. Samuels Presidential Chair and a distinguished professor of biochemistry ...

When SARS-CoV-2 swept the world in early 2020, Stuart Schreiber banded together with a group of scientists to try to find a path out of the pandemic. They poured over papers and preprints, and ...

Basic research is at the foundation of all scientific discoveries, underlying the innovative cures and treatments developed at Fred Hutch Cancer Center. Founded in 1981, the Basic Sciences Division ...

The Trump administration's proposal to cut National Institutes of Health (NIH) indirect funds has been widely attacked, with heated claims it will annihilate biomedical scientific research in the ...

André O. Hudson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. We asked André O. Hudson, a biochemist and microbiologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology, to explain how basic ...

Basic research is at the foundation of all scientific discoveries, underlying the innovative cures and treatments developed at Fred Hutch. Founded in 1981, the Basic Sciences Division has continually ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Bruce J. MacFadden, University of Florida (THE CONVERSATION) It might seem surprising, ...