The United States once sold itself as a radical bet on human equality, self-government, and the rule of law, a political experiment that promised ordinary people control over their own fate. Two and a ...

Experiments on animals (“in vivo” experiments) have long been the norm for learning about human health and disease, because testing on live animals enables researchers to investigate how chemicals, ...

There is a sea change in America’s framework for conducting experiments on humans. The biggest surprise is that you probably know little to nothing about it. It has to do with a provision tucked into ...

Scientists have trained a computer made from living human neurons to play the classic video game Doom, marking a strange but important step forward in biological computing. A clump of roughly 200,000 ...