Systems biologist Lone Gram describes her approach to combing the oceans for novel compounds that may be useful in the fight against pathogens.
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.
Officials in the most populous nation on Earth have finally owned up to clusters of the disease around areas beset by industrial waste and other pollutants.
A Chinese businessman offers a government official a large monetary reward to take a dip in a river that runs through the town of Ruian.
A psychiatric drug in the water can cause perch to be less social, more voracious hunters.
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.
More than 140 nations agree to a plan to limit global mercury emissions.
Carl Woese, the discoverer of the third domain of life, has passed away at age 84.