Nanoparticles coated with a toxin found in bee venom can destroy HIV while leaving surrounding cells intact.
Nanoparticles coated with a toxin found in bee venom can destroy HIV while leaving surrounding cells intact.
A red alga appears to have adapted to extremely hot, acidic environments by collecting genes from bacteria and archaea.
The nanoscale structure of a clanger cicada’s wings destroys threatening microbes on contact.
The method to the dengue virus's maddening infectiousness.
A chance encounter with a crab apple tree leads to the discovery of a new bacterial species and clues to the evolution of insect endosymbionts.
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.
Some of the 200 or so human embryonic stem cell lines approved for federal funding may have been derived from sperm or eggs of unconsenting donors.
Tuberculosis bacteria find shelter from drugs and the body’s defenses in bone marrow stem cells.