On a Sunday morning in April, pathologist Thomas Montine ran one of the most surreal meetings of his life. In an online test interface for a system called the Virtual Lab, Montine constructed a team ...

In the five years since the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, China, a bitter international debate has raged among scientists, politicians, and journalists over the virus’s origin and who is to ...

Ms. Petrova is a Russian scientist who works in a lab at Harvard Medical School. She told her story through a Times Opinion editor, Alex Ellerbeck, over multiple calls from an ICE detention center.

Imagine you’re a molecular biologist wanting to launch a project seeking treatments for a newly emerging disease. You know you need the expertise of a virologist and an immunologist, plus a ...

J en Heemstra, a chemist at Washington University in St. Louis, loves to build new molecules. A self-described “biomolecular engineer,” Heemstra excels in applying chemistry and biology principles to ...

It’s not surprising that many people fear the dentist. Replacing a tooth often requires invasive surgery and implanting a titanium screw into a patient’s jawbone, then waiting months for that to ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.