by Tanvi Ambekar World Editor On Sept. 9, the Lasker Foundation announced the winners for the 2026 Lasker Awards, often nicknamed “America’s Nobel Prizes.” Since its inception in 1942, the Lasker Foundation […]
by Claudia Casal Montserrat Games Editor Ever since Francis Crick’s discoveries in the 1960s, scientists have widely accepted how proteins are made: they are translated from RNA which is transcribed from the fundamental […]
by Lydia Liu Sports Editor Intismeran autogene, a personalized mRNA vaccine developed by Moderna and Merck, delivered strong results in a Phase Ⅲ trial for melanoma. Melanoma is a type of skin cancer […]
by Claudia Casal Montserrat Games Editor The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval of daraxonrasib, a Rat sarcoma (RAS) inhibitor for metastatic pancreatic cancer, on Aug. 26. RAS, a GTPase protein, has […]
by Britt Melinauskas and Quinn Hathaway People and Humor Editors The Lindsay Clancy trial began on Jul. 20 after the deaths of her three children in 2023 and her significant psychiatric issues. Patrick Clancy, […]
by Gowri Sunil Opinion Editor Since the late 1960s, the proliferation of plastic in consumer goods has resulted in severe plastic pollution. Plastic’s lengthy degradation time has only aggravated its strain on […]
by Atharava Pandey Editor-in-Chief On Aug. 26, a glacial collapse near Langtang National Park along the China-Nepal border triggered devastating flash floods throughout Nepal. The glacier released a 193-kilometer-per-hour surge of ice, rock, […]