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If you’ve recently walked through Ohio grocery aisles and noticed familiar products missing, you’re not imagining things. Ohio-based brands and popular items have quietly vanished from shelves, leaving shoppers puzzled and annoyed. Some disappearances are due to cost-cutting and discontinuation, while others stem from larger retail shifts. Knowing which items…

San Diego biotech startup Gallant just raised $18 million in a Series B financing round, furthering its quest to deliver the first ready-to-use stem cell therapy through conditional U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval. But the company isn't directing those funds toward the treatment of sick humans. Rather, it's wants…

A newly created cell model of the amniotic sac could reveal new insights into early pregnancy, as well as generate helpful products for medical use.

When a child struggles to tie their shoelaces, write legibly or stay upright during PE, it can be dismissed as clumsiness or lack of effort. But for around 5% of UK children, these challenges stem from a neurodevelopmental condition known as developmental coordination disorder (DCD), also known as dyspraxia. And…

Why does anything?

"What is the hard evidence, beyond anecdote and suspicion, that unconscious bias impacts on women's careers? Increasing numbers of studies show, in many different guises, just how potent such bias can be."

Despite representing only 4% of the world’s population, the United States accounts for over half of science Nobel Prizes awarded since 2000, hosts seven of The Times Higher Education Top 10 science universities, and incubates firms such as Alphabet (Google), Meta and Pfizer that turn federally funded discoveries into billion-dollar…

Dan Chapman, 31, was diagnosed with aplastic anaemia after spotting a rash

Dan Chapman has been diagnosed with aplastic anaemia, a disorder where the bone marrow does not produce enough blood cells.