On the third day after fertilisation a human embryo is made of six to 12 roughly identical cells; on day four its cells appear to fuse into a mostly uniform blob; and on day five it puffs out to ...

Usha Lee McFarling is a former STAT reporter. Columbia University announced Thursday that its medical school has received $400 million to fund a new institute for basic biomedical research to fuel ...

Amidst ongoing budget brinkmanship in Washington, House and Senate panels have proposed significant cuts in federal funding for basic scientific research. That would be a grave mistake for our ...

André O. Hudson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. We asked André O. Hudson, a biochemist and microbiologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology, to explain how basic ...

In a ceremony held last month, the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize was awarded to Wesley Sundquist, PhD, Leo T. and Barbara K. Samuels Presidential Chair and a distinguished professor of biochemistry ...

The DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces a re-competition of the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program and encourages both new and renewal applications. Applications from ...

Basic research is at the foundation of all scientific discoveries, underlying the innovative cures and treatments developed at Fred Hutch. Founded in 1981, the Basic Sciences Division has continually ...

The positions in the table below reflect the Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities (IBR)'s position overall, domestically, within their sector, and in various subject areas based ...

The Institute for Basic Science will change the way Korea carries out research and development to allow creative and original research, according the organization’s first chief Oh Se-jung. The ...

Tools and Methods in Translational Medicine that Generate Better Drug Candidates As pharma R&D costs escalate and productivity declines, there is a clear need to address the problem of the high ...

Many people are left floundering when they try to get working on their PhDs. In Africa, this is often because the skills they need haven’t been developed earlier in their academic careers. Until more ...