While long anticipated in both science and science fiction, the existence of a circumbinary planet — a planet orbiting two stars — like “Tatooine” portrayed in the fi... Read more
A form of cloning has been used to create personalised embryonic stem cells in humans, say researchers. Genetic material was taken from an adult skin cell and transferred into a human egg. T... Read more
More people are surviving heart attacks, but that means more are living with heart failure A drug that makes hearts repair themselves has been used in research on mice. The damage caused by... Read more
In cancer science, many "discoveries" don't hold up
A former researcher at Amgen Inc has found that many basic studies on cancer — a high proportion of them from university labs — are unreliable, with grim consequences for produci... Read more