A normally land-based microbiologist sets sail to find the building blocks of novel antibiotics in marine bacteria.
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.
Tuberculosis bacteria find shelter from drugs and the body’s defenses in bone marrow stem cells.
Meet the bacterium that pulls gold ions out of solution and forms tiny nuggets of the precious metal.
A University of Wisconsin neuroscientist is found guilty of falsifying Western blots as part of his stroke research, and has requested the retraction of two papers.
Male scientists commit research misconduct more often than their female peers, and senior researchers are more likely to engage in fraud than trainees.
Academics get paid handsome fees to consult with the financial industry, but run the risk of revealing confidential information that leads to illicit gains.
A new ethics course aims to rehabilitate scientists found guilty of misconduct so they can return to the field as productive researchers.
Carl Woese, the discoverer of the third domain of life, has passed away at age 84.
There's a lot more than dirt to the soil in which plants grow.