Inflammation, thought to be a driver of age-related disease, does not worsen with age in some Indigenous communities.

A drug that outperforms placebo in helping people to lose weight is one of a growing number of next-generation obesity drugs being produced in China. At first, Chinese pharmaceutical companies rushed ...

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has not yet rescinded directives that led to the cancellation of more than 2,400 ...

Results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict.

If Stephen Quake gets his way, biologists in the future will spend a lot less time wielding pipettes. “Our goal,” he says, ...

Nature talks to legal and other specialists about the cases and what to watch out for when transporting lab materials.

Researcher used carbon dating to provide evidence that humans had arrived in Brazil much earlier than previously thought.

Research across science and medicine will probably shrink at one of the world’s most elite universities amid a new political ...

US biomedical agency’s public-access policy kicks in on 1 July. Nature talks to specialists about how to comply.

Thimerosal is found in only a small fraction of US vaccine doses but has long been viewed with suspicion by the ...

In 2008, researchers reported that these rocks dated back 4.3 billion years 2, a claim that other scientists contested. Work ...

Merging synthetic organic chemistry and biotechnology, researchers have engineered Escherichia coli that can synthesize small ...