Building Brains on a Computer

Clinical trials are engines for scientific discovery. Better drugs require not just more trials, but also improved data collection, to create therapeutic feedback loops.

A biological puzzle that made one researcher and ruined another might never be solved.

On the 90-year saga of oral phenylephrine.

On the origins of Arabidopsis thaliana, the premier model for plant biology.

Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming’s famed discovery.

Advances in cryo-electron microscopy are revealing the molecular intricacies of cell movement.