Medical research plays a vital role in advancing healthcare, improving treatment, and informing public health policies. However, it can be difficult to understand a study or whether it is trustworthy.

Peer review is a quality control measure for medical research. It is a process in which professionals review each other’s work to make sure that it is accurate, relevant, and significant. Scientific ...

The computer-powered molecule designer Insilico Medicine has been no stranger to generative AI—indeed, it was demonstrating that its networked methods could deliver gains in drug discovery well before ...

The Center for Scientific Integrity — the non-profit organization that runs Retraction Watch — has launched a project aimed at rounding up flawed and fake medical-research papers and neutralizing ...

Every cell in our bodies has a sex. And that sex influences our cells’ biology, contributing to differences between men and women in terms of incidence of disease and reactions to drugs. For example, ...

IN 2011 BEN MOL, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Monash University, in Melbourne, came across a retraction notice for a study on uterine fibroids and infertility published by a researcher ...