A chance encounter with a crab apple tree leads to the discovery of a new bacterial species and clues to the evolution of insect endosymbionts.
A chance encounter with a crab apple tree leads to the discovery of a new bacterial species and clues to the evolution of insect endosymbionts.
Systems biologist Lone Gram describes her approach to combing the oceans for novel compounds that may be useful in the fight against pathogens.
A normally land-based microbiologist sets sail to find the building blocks of novel antibiotics in marine bacteria.
The global spread of dengue virus has immunologists and public-health experts debating the best way to curb infection.
Patients are sidestepping clinical research and using themselves as guinea pigs to test new treatments for fatal diseases. Will they hurt themselves, or science?
Previously enigmatic circular RNAs have been found to influence gene expression by binding to and blocking another class of regulatory RNA, the microRNAs.
One gene involved in speech produces more of its protein in the brains of young girls than boys.
Three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are offering $3 million to scientists demonstrating excellence in biology and medical research.
Disruptions in the interaction between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA can lead to deficiencies in the mitochondrial energy-generating process, affecting fitness.
The first human trial of a treatment using induced pluripotent stem cells has received conditional approval from an institutional review board in Japan.