The diversity of microbes in the great outdoors may protect against inflammatory disorders.
The diversity of microbes in the great outdoors may protect against inflammatory disorders.
A lack of methodological detail in the published literature threatens the foundation of scientific discourse.
The United Kingdom government hatches a plan to provide free public access to government-funded research.
Techniques for simpler, cheaper, and better antibody purification
A cytokine involved in suppressing the immune system may actually activate it to kill cancer cells.
The country vows to curb misconduct in scholarly publishing.
A combination of antibiotics and the body’s own defensive metabolites clears bacterial infections faster than antibiotics alone.
Editors at PLoS Medicine suggest that merely disclosing conflicts of interest is insufficient and possibly even counterproductive.
The NIH agrees with the government advisory board’s recommendation to publish both controversial bird flu studies in full.
In rhesus macaques, an individual's drop in the social hierarchy leads to overactive immune genes and, possibly, poor health.