NEW YORK—Expressing puzzlement over how their investment had matured, shareholders who originally purchased stock in Leap Therapeutics to fund the development of a promising colorectal cancer treatmen...

NEW YORK, NY—In a development that surprised no one who knew her, STAT senior science writer Sharon Begley, who died in 2021, published the most devastating obituary of James Watson on Thursday, four ...

BERKELEY, CA—Confirming the department had “no choice but to act decisively,” UC Berkeley Environmental Health & Safety officials announced Tuesday that a precision drone strike had successfully neutr...

YOUR HOUSE, USA—In a development that sources describe as “honestly just insulting at this point,” Harvard chemist and Broad Institute core member David Liu remains younger than you despite having inv...

CAMBRIDGE, MA—Lingering in his corner office well after his colleagues had gone home, Moderna Chief Commercial Officer Jim Dixon confirmed Tuesday that he sometimes stays late just to pull up the Sept...

BETHESDA, MD—Expressing alarm at what they described as “a window into something we weren’t prepared to see,” a panel of psychologists convened Tuesday to analyze NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya’s Thank...

LA JOLLA, CA—Noting that the prestigious award had been rattling around loose next to a set of jumper cables and a half-empty bottle of windshield wiper fluid for approximately three years, sources co...

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

NEW ORLEANS, LA—In what representatives described as an “innovative approach to experiential marketing,” pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk reportedly simulated the appetite-suppressing effects of thei...

CHICAGO, IL—Demonstrating a style that colleagues describe as “technically correct but spiritually devastating,” emeritus professor Dr.