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.
The method to the dengue virus's maddening infectiousness.
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.
A paper describing a new method for imaging synapse formation has been retracted after it emerged that the first author falsified data to prove its effectiveness.
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.
Male scientists commit research misconduct more often than their female peers, and senior researchers are more likely to engage in fraud than trainees.