Scientists develop a safer vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease by reproducing the protein shells that encase the disease-causing virus.
Scientists develop a safer vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease by reproducing the protein shells that encase the disease-causing virus.
Researchers are using DNA to compute, power, and sense.
The method to the dengue virus's maddening infectiousness.
The global spread of dengue virus has immunologists and public-health experts debating the best way to curb infection.
Using a new assembly method, scientists have combined multiple enzymes in a polymer nanocapsule to reduce blood alcohol levels and liver damage in drunken mice.
A study suggests that some mouse models do not accurately mimic human molecular mechanisms of inflammatory response, but other mouse strains may fare better.
One of the most advanced tuberculosis vaccines has failed to protect infants from getting the disease in a clinical trial, but it may be effective in adults.
With dogged persistence and an unwillingness to entertain defeat, Bruce Beutler discovered a receptor that powers the innate immune response to infections—and earned his share of a Nobel Prize.
Some of these insidious viruses expertly subvert the host immune system, allowing their unhindered proliferation.