Understand the fundamentals that drive life. Do basic research that leads to medical breakthroughs and improvements in our world. Study the underlying chemistry of organisms and ecosystems. Help ...

Life Science Cares provides a platform for companies in the life sciences industry and their employees to make a difference. It makes impactful grants to community nonprofits that are implementing ...

The Board on Life Sciences (BLS) was established in 1984 to serve as the focal point for addressing critical, emerging policy and technical issues associated with the life sciences and biotechnology ...

Basic research is at the foundation of all scientific discoveries, underlying the innovative cures and treatments developed at Fred Hutch Cancer Center. Founded in 1981, the Basic Sciences Division ...

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Life Sciences (EILS) course focuses on the role of individuals in creating, engaging with, operating or investing in new life sciences ventures. The course ...

It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists.

Nature Methods is a forum for the publication of novel methods and significant improvements to tried-and-tested basic research techniques in the life sciences. This monthly publication is aimed at a ...

The 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will go to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discovery that modifying mRNA – a form of genetic material your body uses to produce proteins – ...