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The Food and Drug Administration approved the pill pirtobrutinib on Oct. 2, 2026, as a first treatment for two blood cancers, chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma. The approval…
Vaxcyte said on Oct. 5, 2026, that its experimental pneumococcal vaccine met every main immune-response goal set for OPUS-1, a phase 3 trial that dosed 4,047 U.S. adults. The figures are the…
A drought, in the usual telling, arrives with heat. The reservoirs fall, the air bakes, and the two feed each other. Tree rings from slow-growing pines high in the southern Colorado Rockies now say…
Bone fragments too small to identify by shape, from Denisova Cave and other sites in southern Siberia, carried the DNA of an extinct relative of cattle and yaks that has never been described. These…
Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute and the University of California, Los Angeles report that a single receptor in the gut sets how much fat the intestine releases into the bloodstream…
Mice engineered so that a piece of one blood vessel protein can no longer be cut away grew normal blood vessels but reacted far less to inflammation, researchers at Heidelberg University and the…
Researchers at Virginia Tech report that two meals matched to within 1.6% on calories, fat, carbohydrate, protein, fiber and salt still produced different responses in the body, depending on whether…
In 2010, in a lab at the University of Texas at Arlington, a postdoctoral researcher named Cheng Sun was combing viral genomes for stretches of human DNA, and found some. Two copies of a human gene…
Two slabs of rock, one from southern China and one from southern Mongolia, look much the same under a microscope. Both are crowded with the preserved shapes of tiny organisms. In neither can anyone…
A review of 53 studies reports climate-linked harm to Indigenous children's health in the communities those studies covered, across five areas. It was published on Sept. 30, 2026, in the journal…
The MitoCarta Tree of Life Consortium has compared the proteins found inside mitochondria, the compartments that supply most of a cell's energy, in eight organisms drawn from across the tree of life.…
The Food and Drug Administration closed its outbreak investigation into recalled iceberg lettuce on Oct. 2 and reported that two of the samples it collected in Mexico tested positive for Cyclospora,…