One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

Six individuals have received this year's Lasker Awards in the areas of basic research, clinical research, and public service ...

Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

GLP-1 based drugs are transforming the treatment of obesity and opening up new avenues for addressing heart disease, ...

Three scientists whose work paved the way to the multibillion-dollar obesity drug boom have won the Lasker Award for “the ...

Zhijian “James” Chen received this year’s Albert Lasker Award for discovering cGAS, an enzyme which scopes out DNA-based ...

One of the researchers described the circumstances that led to the discovery as “serendipity.” This year’s prestigious Lasker ...

Through decades of pioneering work on fighting the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV, South African public health ...

DURBAN - South African epidemiologists Quarraisha and Salim Abdool Karim have been recognised for their life-saving work on ...

James Chen, a professor of microbiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has won a Lasker Award for his discovery of an ...

Dr. Arthur Horwich, a winner of this year’s Lasker Award, has discovered a “changing room” for proteins that allows them to do their jobs.

Dr. Arthur Horwich, a winner of this year’s Lasker Award, has discovered a “changing room” for proteins that allows them to do their jobs. An 81-year-old Chinese scientist, who helped turn ...