Stories by Sara Reardon

The “region-specific” pluripotent cells are easier to grow in vitro and graft into an embryo when injected into the right spot

The U.S. National Institutes of Health reiterated its position after researchers delete a disease gene in nonviable zygotes

Scientists disagree about what types of gene-editing research are ethical

Rumors of germ line modification prove true and look set to reignite an ethical debate

Studies show that children from low-income families have smaller brains and lower cognitive abilities

An interview with members of the committee that concluded the U.S. health agency is “on the way to losing credibility”

Researchers will be able to obtain more powerful varieties of the drug courtesy of the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Nobel laureate Harold Varmus led the National Cancer Institute since 2010, after heading up NIH from 1993 to 1999

Questions surround whether brain-scan measures of whether someone is in pain are reliable enough to be used in legal proceedings

An NIH project seeks to develop technologies to help monitor the organ in real time

3-D systems could mimic human physiology and allow for ethical tests of the impact of potential biological, chemical and radiological warfare agents

An HHS panel recommends changing the condition's name to "systemic exertion intolerance disease"

The White House plan would increase research and development funding but faces a rough road in Congress

Changes have been made to controversial experiments at a lab receiving NIH funding, but the agency says that the work causes only slight pain or distress

Companies and clinicians turn to ketamine to treat mental-health disorder as pipeline of new drugs dries up

Pres. Obama is expected to sign the legislation that also includes $5.2 billion for efforts to combat the Ebola outbreak

The proposed crack-down would close loopholes that allow researchers to hide negative findings and harmful side effects

Circuits that respond to addiction and terror have been modeled in 3D

The government will cease funding "gain-of-function" studies that make viruses more dangerous

Faeces from antibiotic-free cows helps resistant bacteria to flourish in soil, puzzling researchers.

President Obama has pledged up to 3,000 personnel as well to stem the outbreak in West Africa

The newly developed device improves survival in rats after severe infections with everything from E. coli to Ebola

The news comes on the same day as a $650-million donation to expand psychiatric research

Implants to restore brain function lost to injury and disease win support from a defense agency