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AstraZeneca opened a new R&D site in Kendall Square yesterday, celebrating a $1 billion investment in the unsettled center of U.S. biotechnology after a spate of Chinese dealmaking.
Adobe By John WilkersonOct. 6, 2026 Washington Correspondent John Wilkerson[email protected]John writes about the politics of health care, and he is the author of the twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsl...
The 18th-century writer and polymath Samuel Johnson was seldom seen without a book. People say he read in bed and while walking. He even read at dinner, the pages folded over his lap like a “dog who h...
What can hospital longevity clinics can tell you about your health? STAT's Sarah Todd went to one to find out.
Adobe By Mario AguilarOct. 6, 2026 Health Tech Correspondent Mario Aguilar[email protected]Mario covers technology in health care, including FDA regulation of artificial intelligence; how Medicare pay...
The Trump administration is advancing the first government-funded clinical trials of the psychedelic drug ibogaine to treat opioid addiction and PTSD
Mario Tama/Getty Images By Amanda EricksonOct. 6, 2026 News Editor Amanda Erickson[email protected]Amanda Erickson is a news editor at STAT. Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday wi...
A 2016 astronaut photo mosaic highlights a "sunglint" phenomenon that transformed Lake Powell into a winding metallic "river." The artificial reservoir, which is the second-largest in the country, is ...
The ozone hole above Antarctica is unusually large right now, and it might signal a shift in how the gap in Earth's protective layer behaves.
Grail By H. Gilbert WelchOct. 6, 2026 Welch is a physician and cancer screening researcher at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. There must be some mis...
PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images By Anil OzaOct. 6, 2026 General Assignment Reporter Anil Oza[email protected]Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equi...
If we ever hope to build a base, a city, or a full-fledged colony on another world, the first steps are to build structures that can support human existence. The Moon is the closest option, but it has...
Skywatchers in the U.S. and eastern Canada can see a rare lunar occultation of Jupiter early on Oct. 6. Here are the exact times to see the giant planet vanish and reappear.
Federal judges pushed back against the government's arguments in a Medicare Advantage case.
Optogenetics is now the foundational way through which we are able to understand how the brain works
The ancient Egyptians practiced human sacrifice around 5,000 years ago, a new study finds.
Utah plans to allow an AI product to evaluate patients and write new drug prescriptions without prior human review.
Archaeologists in Germany have found a temple to Mars, the god of war, next to a Roman Empire military encampment.
How and where life first emerged on Earth is one of the great unsolved puzzles for scientists exploring the possibility of life on other worlds. For the past decade or so, the prevailing theory has be...
Scott Olson/Getty Images By Meghana KeshavanOct. 5, 2026 Biotech Correspondent Meghana Keshavan[email protected]Meghana Keshavan covers biotech and contributes to The Readout newsletter. Want to stay ...