Chilly weather could impede the immune reactions that most effectively contain viruses like the common cold.
Chilly weather could impede the immune reactions that most effectively contain viruses like the common cold.
Viruses that attack bacteria may be an important component of our gut microbiota.
Experimental cancer therapeutics delivered to tumors via nanoparticles could provide a safer and more effective therapy than conventional chemotherapy.
The NIH has required researchers to receive instruction about responsible conduct for more than 20 years, but misconduct is still on the rise.
Should institutions invest in changing the behavior of scientists found guilty of violating research rules and ethics?
Telomeres and disease; Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes may fight malaria; bat tongue mops nectar; newly sequenced genomes
Emil Frei III, a cancer researcher who in the 1950s combined multiple chemotherapy drugs to treat childhood leukemia, has died at the age of 89.
The brain’s role in aging; tracking disease; understanding the new flu virus; no autism-Lyme link; one drug’s journey from bench to bedside
Desulfobulbaceae bacteria were recently discovered to form centimeter-long cables, containing thousands of cells that share an outer membrane.
The Bonobo and the Atheist, The Philadelphia Chromosome, Lone Survivors, and Paleofantasy