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.
Three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are offering $3 million to scientists demonstrating excellence in biology and medical research.
Can a state-funded research institute regain its footing in the wake of grant scandals and resignations?
An illustration depicting the damaging effects of a tumor (red) on structural connections within the brain
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.
Authors retract a decade-old, highly-cited cancer study, admitting sloppy mistakes in the data analysis.
A conservative republican, and supporter of research, will be the chair of the House appropriations committee that controls the budgets for the National Institutes of Health.
Elwood Jensen, whose research inspired new treatments for breast cancer, has passed away at age 92.