In a renovated supermarket on Orleans Street, to the blare of alternative rock music, Bert Vogelstein and a score of the world’s smartest young scientists are searching for the genes that can program ...

Bert Vogelstein, a professor of oncology and pathology at Johns Hopkins and a pioneer in the field of cancer genomics, is among 11 scientists named the first winners of the world's richest academic ...

Six months after launch, a startup founded by three leaders in the blood testing field is being acquired by medical testing giant Quest Diagnostics. Quest announced on Thursday that it is buying ...

The award … was established by four Internet titans led by Yuri Milner, a Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist who caused a stir last summer when he began giving ...

Two years ago, a mathematician and cancer geneticist from Johns Hopkins kicked up a storm of controversy when they published a paper in the journal Science suggesting that most cancers are caused by ...

PHILADELPHIA, June 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) today named Dr. Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Howard Hughes Medical ...

In a plenary session scheduled for Monday, April 19 at 8 a.m. at the AACR annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Bert Vogelstein, M.D., will offer his definition of the landscape of cancer genetics ...

ALBANY — Two scientists will share a $500,000 Albany Medical Center prize for work that has spurred advances in cancer research, immunology and regenerative medicine. Dr. Irving Weissman, of Stanford ...

This release is available in German. For the tenth time, the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize will be awarded in conjunction with an international symposium. The prize of 100,000 Swiss francs for ...

In a culture that often seems to worship celebrity over accomplishment, “Today” looks this morning at a day in the life of one of the most brilliant and respected scientists in the world. Bert ...

This story is part of our "This Moment In Cancer" series. A dear friend died of lung cancer this week. She didn’t smoke and she had no other risk factors. A retired nurse and avid cook, she ate an ...