Vaccination has beaten back infections for more than a century. Now, it may be the next big step in battling cancer.

With the help of directed evolution, scientists inch closer to developing viral vectors that can cross the human blood-brain barrier to deliver gene therapy.

p53 is possibly the most important protein for maintaining cellular function. Losing it is synonymous with cancer.

Targeted cancer therapy may jeopardize the effectiveness of subsequent immunotherapy by reducing dendritic cell numbers and activation, according to study of mice and patient samples.

Metagenomic sequencing can help detect unknown pathogens, but its widespread use faces challenges.

A combinatorial approach enabled high-throughput screening of protein libraries for desired target binding.

This year’s crop of winning products features many with a clinical focus and others that represent significant advances in sequencing, single-cell analysis, and more.

Recent advances in modeling the human placenta, the least understood organ, may inform placental disorders like preeclampsia.