Scientists track changes in bacterial genomes during a hospital outbreak to discover potential pathogenesis genes.
Scientists track changes in bacterial genomes during a hospital outbreak to discover potential pathogenesis genes.
A video of thousands of birds flying as a single coordinated, amorphous group stirs up questions about how they do it.
A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in neuroscience and related areas, from Faculty of 1000
Women of the French families that colonized Canada in the 17th and 18th centuries had more children and grandchildren than late comers to the region.
A physician doing a residency at the University of Virginia Medical Center was caught copying sections of text and an illustration in multiple NIH-funded papers.
Nicotine may alter the brain’s response to cocaine, supporting the idea that the legal drug may serve as a "gateway" to the use of illegal substances.
A fossilized jaw bone and teeth from Western Europe are recognized as the oldest modern human fossils recovered in the region.
Bacteria age, but as a lineage, can live forever.
Inadequate poultry immunization programs may cause higher mutations rates in the bird flu virus, rendering the vaccine ineffective and increasing the threat of cross-species transmission.