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.
Scientists have identified the sticky substance that is damaging the feathers of hundreds seabirds washed ashore in England as an additive for lubricant oils.
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.
Satellite images reveal that small oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico are often larger than reported.
The heat emanating from large metropolitan areas may be changing weather patterns thousands of miles away.