Leading medical and research centers around the world announce a plan to share massive amounts of genetic and clinical information.
Leading medical and research centers around the world announce a plan to share massive amounts of genetic and clinical information.
Computational challenges are tapping the collective wisdom of the scientific community to solve medicine’s biggest problems.
Turning cell phones into basic research tools can improve health care in the developing world.
Researchers use DNA from ancient tooth tartar to chart changes in the bacterial communities that have lived in human mouths for 8,000 years.
As new infections surface and spread, science meets the challenges with ingenuity and adaptation.
Researchers discover a microbe living at -15°C, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth, giving hope to the search for life elsewhere in the cosmos.
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.
Telomeres and disease; Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes may fight malaria; bat tongue mops nectar; newly sequenced genomes
The names and addresses of people participating in the Personal Genome Project can be easily tracked down despite such data being left off their online profiles.