OAK PARK, Ill — Governor JB Pritzker is once again pushing for a bill to prohibit students from using cell phones in schools. With hopes of improving student achievement, social skills and mental ...

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and ...

A virus that is big enough to be seen under an ordinary light microscope co-opts its host’s systems with the help of potentially purloined genes. The researchers found that the virus makes a complex ...

Metastasis, the spread of cancer from a primary tumor to other parts of the body, is difficult to study in the lab, in part ...

A Japanese health ministry expert panel has conditionally endorsed two products using iPS cells, paving the way for the world's first practical use of iPS cell-derived products. We take a close look ...