The post-pandemic bubble popped, but life sciences aren’t going anywhere. Blackstone announced Monday that it closed Blackstone Life Sciences VI (BXLS VI) at its hard cap of $6.3 billion in ...

Blackstone Inc. closed its latest life-sciences fund with $6.3 billion of commitments, the firm’s biggest haul for backing clinical trials of medicines and technologies. The new vehicle, Blackstone ...

One of the world’s leading investment firms has broken its own record with the closing of its $6.3 billion Blackstone Life Sciences VI (BLXS VI) fund, which is 40% larger than its predecessor.

The blood-brain-barrier is both a vital defence and a formidable obstacle. It protects the brain from toxic substances that circulate in the blood, but limits the delivery of drugs that could be used ...

Mars may be hostile, but it might not be entirely unlivable. In lab experiments, yeast cells survived simulated Martian shock waves and toxic perchlorate salts—two major environmental threats on the ...

David J. Adams serves as Indiana’s Secretary of Commerce and a member of Governor Mike Braun’s cabinet. Since his appointment in 2025, Adams has been instrumental in the transforming the state’s ...

Living systems rely on molecules fitting together precisely. A key concept is chirality – many biological building blocks come in mirror-image forms, like left and right hands. Life on Earth mostly ...

The Orion spacecraft may only be the size of two minivans on the inside — but for the Artemis II astronauts, the capsule taking them to the vicinity of the moon has already proved to be larger than ...

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By analyzing oxygen across NGC 1365 and comparing it with simulations, they ...

Scientists find diet can influence inherited traits without changing DNA, highlighting long-term biological effects.