A third dose of the MMR vaccine given during an intense outbreak appears to have provided herd-immunity to control the spread of the disease.
A third dose of the MMR vaccine given during an intense outbreak appears to have provided herd-immunity to control the spread of the disease.
In Chapter 2, "Consequences and Evolution: The Cause That Works Backwards," author Susan M. Schneider places evolutionary theory in terms of the science of consequences.
Spillover, Answers for Aristotle, Who’s in Charge? and Science Set Free
| November 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the November 2012 issue of The Scientist.
Successive awakening of soil microbes drives a huge pulse of CO2 following the first rain after a dry summer.
Studying the consequences of behavior has shed light on a wide range of life-science phenomena, pathological as well as everyday.
Mice fed a mix of six strains of bacteria were able to fight a C. difficile infection that causes deadly diarrhea and is resistant to most types of treatment.
Individuals of a newly discovered microbe species line up end-to-end to form electron transport cables many times their length.
The federal government tightens regulations on SARS and other deadly viruses, but the changes could hamper research.
A parasitic worm accumulates epigenetic DNA tags over its lifetime.