The US Geological Survey’s database, a compendium of biodiversity information, will be shut down this month due to a slashed 2012 budget.
The US Geological Survey’s database, a compendium of biodiversity information, will be shut down this month due to a slashed 2012 budget.
An incurable form of tuberculosis has turned up on the subcontinent.
Proteins that appear before patients show symptoms of the disease could offer clues to the disease process.
This week will mark the one-year anniversary of the last polio case in the second-most populous country.
Researchers engineer a bacterium that can arm the majority of the insect population with dengue resistance, and stop the virus’s spread to humans.
A Chinese health agency confirms that the strain of H5N1 bird flu that killed a Chinese man last month does not spread between humans.
Examples of parasites that manipulate the behavior of their hosts are not hard to come by, but scientists have only recently begun to understand how they induce such dramatic changes.
The body’s own mechanism for dispersing the inflammatory reaction might lead to new treatments for chronic pain.
Not all inflammation leads to pain. Despite widespread infection followed by fever, colds rarely cause pain. But when some cytokines and certain immune cells are active near pain-sensing nerves, they trigger receptors that convey pain sensations to t