Editor's Choice in Immunology
The Yersinia pestis strain extracted from the bones of Black Death victims may no longer exist.
A new yeast species found in Patagonia appears to be the missing half of the long-used lager yeast.
Researchers design a synthetic bacterium that kills the infectious microbe Pseudomonas aeruginosa, sacrificing itself in the process.
Caffeinated drinks may help prevent skin cancer by inhibiting a DNA repair pathway, thus killing potentially precancerous cells.
For the first time, researchers have engineered a multicellular organism that incorporates a synthetic amino acid into its proteins.
Sheng Wang leaves the Boston University School of Medicine and agrees to retract two published studies.
A new microfluidics chip lets researchers analyze the nucleic acids of 300 individual cells simultaneously.
Researchers identify new mutations in schizophrenia patients without a family history of the disease.
Researchers identify an antibody profile that may mark patients who suffer persistent symptoms of the tick-borne disease.