South Africa's healthcare system faces a growing challenge as qualified medical scientists struggle to find employment. A ...

Medical scientists are stricter while natural, social and humanities scientists are more permissive. The attitude to ethically problematic ways of conducting research differs clearly between ...

Randomized, controlled clinical trials are crucial for telling whether a new treatment is safe and effective. But often scientists don't fully report the details of their trials in a way that allows ...

Vaccines and scientists who work on them have been embroiled in controversy and subject to unfounded attacks over the past half-dozen years. The litany of attacks has included both debunked claims and ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye-called the cornea-can heal from minor scratches within a single day. The brain is not one ...

Scientists created the first synthetic cell from scratch that grows and replicates, offering hope for future cancer ...

Katie James, Kara Terol and Hannah Sharma all received life-saving heart transplants before the age of 35 and all donated those that were removed to research.