After two headline successes, companies rush to develop “smart bomb” cancer drugs.
After two headline successes, companies rush to develop “smart bomb” cancer drugs.
Large RNA-protein packets use a novel mechanism to escape the cell nucleus.
Understanding the mechanism of a classic tuberculosis treatment could refine future strategies for TB drug development.
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.
Swapping chromosomes from one human egg to another could eliminate mitochondrial DNA mutations that cause disease.
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.
In mutating to evade immune detection, HIV becomes susceptible to detection by different antibodies, suggesting new strategies for vaccination.