A culture of fear around corrections and retractions is hampering efforts to maintain the integrity of scientific research.

Tuesday's votes will chart the course for the future of health care access, affordability, and public health writ large.

Scientific publishing needs to stop treating error-checking as a slightly inconvenient side note and make it a core part of academic research.

In the United States, the analysis estimates, 905,000 people have died of Covid since the start of the pandemic.

The decision by the Biden administration to support the proposal comes after months of fruitless talks at the World Trade Organization.

Critics say editors have asked authors to scrub the term racism from their articles even as they publish others that include racist notions.

Experts fear false narratives about vaccines could slow down the task of inoculating people and create other problems in the future.

A new analysis that suggests the shot "provides minimal protection" against mild disease caused by a new variant circulating in South Africa.

Sharon Begley, whose science journalism career spanned 43 years at Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and STAT, died Saturday at 64.

The ageny may be exploring the idea of using expanded access - a more limiting program - in the early days of Covid vaccine rollouts.

Research unveiled that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.

As the world wearies of trying to suppress the SARS-CoV-2 virus, many of us are wondering what the future will look like as we try to learn to live with it.

The decision could generate intense controversy inside the administration and the broader scientific community because of a dearth of reliable data.

The FDA granted emergency use authorization for a saliva test for the virus that causes Covid-19, which could improve testing capability in the U.S.

"The idea of losing that leadership at this critical moment for our nation is unthinkable," NIH Director Francis Collins told STAT. 

Investigators say the delay was prompted by changes to the trial plan, called a protocol, while stressing such changes are common.

MIT Press is launching a journal that will review Covid-19 preprints, in an effort to quickly call out misinformation and highlight credible research.

The decision comes as new details emerge in the scandal that has ignited a firestorm of controversy in the scientific community.

STAT asked 11 experts in infectious disease, epidemiology, and pandemic preparedness how to avoid the mistakes of the coronavirus response this spring.

The immune response is similar to the response seen in people who have been infected by the virus, known as SARS-CoV-2, and recovered.

In a secret experiment, researchers replaced the dysfunctional brain cells of a Parkinson's patient with the progeny of an extraordinary type of stem cell.

The idea of controlled human infection trials has been met with enthusiasm in some quarters, and reservations in others, including from some who run them.