Manuel Ansede

Scientist Laura Soucek, who removed tumors from rodents almost 20 years ago, invokes the ‘moral duty’ not to generate false expectations after Mariano Barbacid’s announcement

The biochemist’s company, Vega Oncotargets, has toned down its message after the false expectations generated by the announcement of a promising experiment with 45 ‘cured’ mice

Spanish scientist Pascual Diago has published a delusional study to denounce the invasion of fraudulent publishers in science.

An analysis of 100,000 special issues of academic journals reveals that one in eight is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI

Biologist Eduard Batlle used to spend his weekends at his parents’ confectionery. Now he’s one of the six inventors of petosemtamab, a revolutionary experimental treatment for tumors that’s been acquired by a Danish company

Opacity surrounds incidents at scientific facilities, with over 400 cases documented in the last half-century worldwide, including a cloud of bacteria that affected 10,000 people in 2019

Documents sent to Spain’s National Biosafety Commission confirm at least two tests conducted in October and November at the facilities, which are undergoing construction work. Authorities are investigating the possibility of a lab leak

There is no medicine for this disease, nor will one be available in the near future, meaning authorities have to resort to medieval measures to counter a plague

One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 billion in 2024

The British Antarctic Survey estimates that more than 50,000 individuals are missing from the beaches following the virus’s sudden jump from birds: ‘It’s staggering’

An international investigation confirms that beta-blockers, prescribed routinely for four decades, do not provide benefits to most patients recovering from a myocardial infarction

A multibillion-dollar project reveals critical moments during pregnancy, and even after birth, when the risk of neurological development disorders like autism, schizophrenia and attention deficit disorder is highest

The experimental treatment, developed using cells at La Paz public hospital, achieves a preliminary survival rate of 70% in patients who had exhausted all other options

The treatment, which is administered only once, has allowed a little girl named Eliana Nachem, confined to her home to avoid infections, to go out into the world

A play recounts the astonishing story of the religious man who created a universal language of numbers

Six scientists demonstrate in their laboratory that a sulfur compound could have been key to the appearance of the first proteins on early Earth

A Chinese company, calling itself ‘the organ factory of the future,’ has humanized a pig through genetic engineering to enable a transplant performed on a brain-dead man

The discovery of an unusual stellar explosion confirms the existence of a ‘cosmic onion’ with layers of chemical elements inside each star

A Japanese laboratory claims it is the first time a behavior has been transmitted between species, achieved by manipulating a single gene

Four volunteers with paralysis manage to communicate thanks to a brain reader that only activates when they think of the title of the famous children’s movie, protecting their mental privacy

The fossils, attributed to an unknown australopithecus that lived in present-day Ethiopia 2.6 million years ago, have met with skepticism from other experts

A leading scientist, a businesswoman and a disease-free patient come together to tell the full story of the promising experimental Spanish tumor drug 

A Harvard team reverses dementia in mice with a metal supplement, after showing that its deficiency drives the disease

A team led by Chinese scientists found that there was a natural crossing nine million years ago, in an investigation with geopolitical implications: whoever controls potatoes dominates the world

The Spanish doctor, of the US National Science Foundation, is the only employee to put his full name to a letter against the dismantling of the government agency

The researcher has penned crime novels full of death — and received more than $5.8 million from the European Union toward finding the cure for cancer