The Yersinia pestis strain extracted from the bones of Black Death victims may no longer exist.
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The Yersinia pestis strain extracted from the bones of Black Death victims may no longer exist.
Current farming practices draw too much of the world’s freshwater supplies to be sustainable. A change is needed to support growing agricultural demand.
New testing technologies and improved communication among regulatory agencies are making strides in the fight against foodborne disease.
Researchers design a synthetic bacterium that kills the infectious microbe Pseudomonas aeruginosa, sacrificing itself in the process.
Sheng Wang leaves the Boston University School of Medicine and agrees to retract two published studies.
Repurposing patient’s own T-cells to recognize antigens on cancer cells caused dramatic improvement in three patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Improved immunization efforts are required to prevent infections during the first 6 months of life, when newborn and infants are highly susceptible to disease.
A transcription factor can make adult stem cells behave like fetal stem cells.
Conservation biologists must reflect on the nation’s changing demographics to save the organisms they strive to protect.
Already reeling from a 20-year losing battle with a devastating disease, the banana variety eaten in the United States is now threatened by a new—but old—enemy.