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When Antony van Leeuwenhoek, the late 17th-century drape maker turned amateur scientist, first described microbes, people thought he was crazy. He focused his homemade microscopes on water from a pond outside his house, and on the dental plaque from...

It’s hard to imagine how things could possibly get better for the Cambridge life sciences cluster, save for an extended spell of money falling from the sky. Things are clicking for the brainiacs who take breakthrough academic research, start companies...

Moises Velasquez-Manoff, author of An Epidemic of Absence, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book--a discussion of why allergies and autoimmune diseases have been on the rise in the developed world for the last half-century. Velasquez-Manoff...

By Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Thirty-three years ago, scientists knew the genomic location of exactly one disease-causing gene — the gene that causes Huntington’s disease. But since that time, they have discovered thousands more disease-causing...

Takoda GSRNE #195 Adopted in June 2007 Takoda was found as a stray wandering the streets of Swansea, MA and ended up in the local shelter, who contacted GSRNE in November 2005 after efforts to find his owners proved fruitless. As with all of us who...