BOSTON (AP) — A medical researcher won't serve more time behind bars after pleading guilty to lying to a federal official about 21 vials of lab material inside his luggage as he prepared to fly to...

PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Human body parts that authorities say may have been intended for medical research were found this weekend in northern Arizona.

BOSTON (AP) — A medical researcher accused of trying to smuggle vials of cancer research material out of the U.S. to his native China by hiding it in a sock inside his luggage pleaded guilty to a...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The head of Nashville’s Meharry Medical College, the oldest historically Black medical school in the country, on Thursday urged Black and Hispanic people to participate in...

LONDON (AP) — Oxford to resume trial of coronavirus vaccine it's creating with AstraZeneca, days after halt due to reported effect.

WASHINGTON (AP) — World’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study begins, a US trial that will include 30,000 people to see if shots really work.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A medical researcher and professor who had been working most recently at Ohio State University is facing federal charges in what prosecutors say was a sophisticated scheme to...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The University of Maine System entered into partnerships with the nonprofit biomedical research institution The Jackson Laboratory and ConvenientMD to provide comprehensive...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. disarmament chief warned Friday that cyber crime is on the rise, with a 600% increase in malicious emails during the COVID-19 pandemic.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Government official: First dose to be delivered Monday in clinical trial for potential COVID-19 vaccine.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Four faculty members have left the University of Florida as the school and federal government investigate foreign exploitation of American-funded medical...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The CEO, a vice president and four researchers abruptly resigned their positions at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center on Wednesday over a controversy that linked them to possible...

PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Provo man has been convicted of sex crimes after he falsely claimed to be a medical professional conducting anatomy research on women contacted through Craigslist.

BOSTON (AP) — Man with Lou Gehrig’s disease who helped popularize ice bucket challenge, raising millions for ALS research, dies at 34.

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia Tech and Children’s National Hospital have announced a plan to establish a 12,000-square-foot biomedical research facility focused on pediatric health.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is putting nearly $6 million into a new center for bariatric and metabolic surgery at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge and a nearby hospital,...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Alcohol Research Center is getting a $7.5 million grant to continue its work to better understand fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

CHICAGO (AP) — A new research facility has opened at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

A ribbon-cutting is scheduled Monday afternoon for the 12-story Louis...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A University of Rhode Island-based initiative that has expanded biomedical research capacity at colleges across the state has received an additional $20 million in...

BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — A non-profit research institution in Maine is receiving a grant of almost $18 million to support its biomedical research and research training work in the state.

HOUSTON (AP) — A prominent cancer center in Houston has ousted three of five scientists whom federal authorities identified as being involved in Chinese efforts to steal American...

EAST BOOTHBAY, Maine (AP) — Researchers with a Maine marine science center say some shellfish have the ability to contribute to human health, and not just when covered in linguini.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A research firm in Virginia says it has gotten a federal license to import high-quality extracts of marijuana for medical research.

The Virginian-Pilot reported Wednesday that Sanyal Biotechnology will soon embark on a series of critical studies into treatment of various diseases and disorders.

The University of Kentucky has launched the public phase of a $2 billion-plus fundraising campaign, laying out a set of goals that include expanding student scholarships and boosting medical research in a state struggling with high rates of cancer and other chronic illnesses.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Hospital says it has been awarded nearly $12 million to establish a research center on opioids to help fight the overdose epidemic.

The hospital in Providence says it received a five-year, $11.8 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence on opioids and overdose.

MORGANTON, Ga. (AP) — On a sunny Tuesday in May, 11-year-old Hercules made a brave move and ventured outside alone. He moved slowly at first, looking at the ground and shaking his head before walking across 2 acres of forest to observe the sights and sounds around him. Not far behind him was Leo, also 11, who ran forward before stopping, sitting down and staring up at the sky.

Hercules and Leo are former research chimpanzees, and it was the first time in their lives they had ever been outside.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Abortion rights opponents who challenged the University of Minnesota's use of aborted fetal tissue for medical research have lost an appeal.

The ruling issued Monday by the state Court of Appeals says the lawsuit filed in 2016 by Pro-Life Action Ministries is moot because the Legislature clarified the law, allowing the research, while the case was pending

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The University of Central Florida is taking over the Orlando facility of a medical research organization that had received more than $350 million in public and private incentives.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a group of Michigan parents who alleged that the state didn't obtain proper consent to draw or store their newborns' blood for medical research.

An attorney for the parents tells WOOD-TV an appeal is planned.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Tumors once considered untreatable have disappeared and people previously given months to live are surviving for decades thanks to new therapies emerging from the work of three scientists chosen to receive a $500,000 medical prize.

The recipients of the annual Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, announced Wednesday, are being recognized for their studies of the immune system that have led to innovative treatments for cancer, HIV and other diseases.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded about $340,000 in seed funding to promising medical research projects.

The foundation said Friday that it's awarding the grants to 16 projects to help researchers advance their projects to the point where they can compete for national funding.

A Miriam Hospital project that aims to improve the quality of life for people with chronic Lyme disease received a grant.

ELLSWORTH, Maine (AP) — A Maine laboratory will celebrate the opening of a new $200 million mice breeding facility next month.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore firefighters on Thursday cleared people out of two medical research buildings due to tuberculosis contamination, but authorities later said there was no risk of infection to anyone and the evacuation order was lifted.

Kim Hoppe, a spokeswoman with Johns Hopkins Medicine, said a small sample of frozen tuberculosis was "inadvertently released" in an internal bridge between two cancer research buildings that don't connect to the hospital.

DENVER (AP) — Federal inspectors found a critical violation of animal welfare by a medical research center in Denver in its treatment of guinea pigs.

The Denver Post reports the federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service conducted a routine examination of the National Jewish Health lab earlier this year, finding issues with a study involving exposure to cigarette smoke.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Four baboons are back in an enclosure after escaping briefly from a San Antonio medical research center.

Officials at the Southwest National Primate Research Center, which is part of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, say three of the baboons were captured within about 30 minutes Saturday after they managed to get out of their enclosure and beyond a perimeter fence. A fourth animal also was accounted for later.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A $42 million biomedical research grant to the University of Minnesota is one of the biggest federal grants the school has ever received.

The university is announcing the National Institutes of Health grant Friday morning. The Star Tribune says the five-year grant will pay for a variety of research, especially into new devices, tests and treatment methods.