News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Childhood leukemia worsened by genetic mutations

    Mutations in JAK genes make childhood leukemia more dangerous and may offer a target for drug manufacturers.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Life

    New neurons don’t heal

    New neurons produced in the brain after a stroke don’t grow into all the cell types needed to heal the wound.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Space

    Smallest exoplanet yet is found

    Finding a planet just under twice Earth's size puts astronomers closer to discovering an Earth counterpart.

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Health & Medicine

    Gene could matter in bladder cancer

    Among people with a common form of bladder cancer, those with a variant of a certain gene survive twice as long as people with the common version of the gene.