Spain to launch an atlas of all living beings cell by cell
Catalan biologist Arnau Sebé Pedrós has received almost €4 million to start the cellular catalog of life on Earth
The daughter of a shepherd and an embroiderer is in the running to win a Nobel Prize
The Spanish biophysicist Eva Nogales has just received the $1.2 million Shaw Prize for revealing the atomic intricacies of human beings
Pura Muñoz, biologist: ‘It is possible to reverse aging, to go back in time’
The scientist is one of the star signings of Altos Labs, a multinational company with a $3-billion budget that aims to extend human’s health span
Researchers discover the weak points of the protein that causes one in 10 cancers
Four scientists from Barcelona have created the first map of the vulnerable sites of the KRAS gene, whose mutations, often associated with smoking, cause millions of tumors
With the promise of saving millions of lives, CRISPR medicine is born
The approval of the first DNA editing therapy opens the door to a revolution in the treatment of a multitude of diseases, such as cancer
With a complete map of a mouse brain, scientists hope to understand the human mind
A billion-dollar consortium has revealed for the first time the deep organization at play within a mammal’s thinking organ
The origin of mysterious green ‘ghosts’ in the sky has been discovered
Engineer María Passas Varo’s team reveals the causes of a strange electrical phenomenon, which draws spectral figures in storms
The list of the world’s most-cited scientists excludes 1,000 researchers over fraudulent practices
Following a scandal uncovered by EL PAÍS and involving fake affiliations, Saudi Arabia has lost 30% of the highly-cited researchers it previously boasted about, which will cause its universities to plummet in the international rankings
Scientists paid large publishers over $1 billion in four years to have their studies published with open access
A study reveals that academic megajournals ‘Scientific Reports’ and ‘Nature Communications’ have cornered the market
Ferenc Krausz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics: Many types of cancer have ‘a very distinctive infrared light signature’
The Hungarian physicist is using attosecond science to try to detect malignant tumors in such early stages that it becomes much easier to cure them
The most advanced chimeric monkey yet is born
Spanish scientist Miguel Angel Esteban has joined forces with Chinese researchers to create a primate that has two thirds of its cells from another monkey embryo and could help with research on human disease, such as Alzheimer’s
Twin galaxy of the Milky Way discovered at the edge of the universe
A new study shows that similar galaxies existed 11.7 billion years ago, when the universe was barely 15% of its current age
Spanish national research council investigates five scientists for manipulating university rankings
The academics were allegedly paid up to €70,000 a year for falsely stating that they worked for Saudi institutions
A study suggests that the Earth’s interior hides the remnants of another planet
The mysterious dense layers of the Earth’s mantle could be remains from our planet’s collision with the protoplanet Tea 4.5 billion years ago
Public funds being swallowed up by scientific journals with dubious articles
An analysis suggests that some academic publishers have multiplied their income thanks to accepting trivial studies en masse
Antonio Alonso, geneticist: ‘I do not believe that there was a plot to abduct newborns from Spanish public hospitals during democracy’
The director of the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences denies the existence of an abduction ring involving 300,000 newborns in Spain after investigating hundreds of cases
An investigation has been opened into the death of a scientist who was studying a transmissible and deadly disease in Spain
Three institutions are trying to ascertain the origin of the infectious Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease samples discovered in the biochemist’s laboratory. The 45-year-old investigator died in 2022
The epicenter of the worst bird flu crisis in history, with 250 million birds culled, shifts to Europe
A study on virus evolution warns of imminent outbreaks after November’s large migrations
Anne L’Huillier, Nobel Laureate in Physics: ‘People are mostly empty space’
The French scientist’s work unveiled the hidden world of electrons for humanity to explore
Spanish university administrator and colleagues linked to ‘factory’ producing fraudulent scientific studies
The engineer Rubén González Crespo, one of the most cited researchers in the world, and other academics in Spain claim to be victims of a sketchy Indian professor. Together they have 16 retracted papers
2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for quantum dots, which revolutionized color TVs and show promise against cancer
The Swedish Academy announced the winners, Moungi Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexey Ekimov, amid great confusion after the institution sent a statement to the Swedish press hours before officially making the decision
Cockles that have transmissible leukemia shed light on unusual contagious cancer
There are over a dozen transmissible tumors in mollusks, the Tasmanian devil and even dogs, but cases in humans are extremely rare
A strange pancake-shaped creature shows the origin of thought
Placozoans separated from human beings 800 million years ago. They barely measure a millimeter, but their cells contain neuropeptides, which can transmit messages like neurons
A mouse with 100,000 human neurons in its brain illuminates the enigma of Alzheimer’s
A team of scientists has managed to prevent neuronal death with oral drugs administered to rodents that have been genetically modified to imitate dementia
Analysis of 200 million known proteins suggests that humans have 13 unique three-dimensional shapes
A new tool has successfully sorted the labyrinthine building blocks of life into clusters with similar structures for the first time
The first human organ created inside an animal opens the door to manufacturing ‘spare parts’ for people
In an experiment that raises bioethical issues, researchers in China have generated a blueprint of a humanized kidney in a pig embryo
New type of cell discovered in the human brain
These ‘glutamatergic astrocytes’ could play a role in understanding disorders such as Alzheimer’s, according to the scientists who have discovered them