The nanoscale structure of a clanger cicada’s wings destroys threatening microbes on contact.
The nanoscale structure of a clanger cicada’s wings destroys threatening microbes on contact.
As US policymakers debate federal budget cuts, global health science hangs in the balance.
If African-American researchers are ever to gain equal opportunities in science, even subtle cases of differential treatment must be stamped out.
The method to the dengue virus's maddening infectiousness.
Agencies like the NSF and NIH are losing around 5 percent of their yearly budgets.
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.
The National Institutes of Health is weighing a peer-review system where grant proposals, even ones being resubmitted, would be treated as new.