PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Life Science Hub has named Dr. Mark Turco to be its first president and CEO. “With a top-tier board, the launch of an incubator lab and other programs, and ...

“Mirror life”—a synthetic organism, mirror-reversed on the molecular level from natural life—sounds like an impossibility. And so far, it is—even the simplest mirror bacterium would be dramatically ...

Some scientists trying to create "mirror life" have stopped in their tracks. A mirror microorganism could end up being a major pathogen since immune systems wouldn't notice it. Mirror-image biology ...

Editor’s note: The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries big and small. You can listen to episodes here. (CNN) — Some people feel ...

Over the past four years, private equity (PE) firms that invested in life science assets have faced a difficult reality. While many investors still debate whether some sectors of the market are in a ...

Chiba, Japan, January 12, 2026—A team at Japan’s National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) has published a field-defining Perspective that places the societal payoff of quantum ...

How much more “mega” can Alexandria Real Estate Equities add to its “mega campus” for life sciences in Seattle? Mucho mega, apparently. The Pasadena-based real estate investment trust will buy and ...

Vacancy rates for life science space are at record highs, and a few firms are capitalizing on the downturn. The region’s core cluster vacancy rate is a record 31.2%, up from 20.4% a year ago, ...

Texas’s premier life science conference returns to Houston in November, spotlighting breakthrough innovations in therapeutics, medical technology, and digital health. HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rice ...

Scientists discovered that common food emulsifiers consumed by mother mice altered their offspring’s gut microbiome from the very first weeks of life. These changes interfered with normal immune ...

The other day I walked along the bank of the Potomac River upstream of Washington, D.C. The trees had shed most of their leaves, but they were vehemently alive. A giant sycamore, easily 4 meters in ...