Deadly epidemics can have a profound impact on people’s choice of religion.
Deadly epidemics can have a profound impact on people’s choice of religion.
Researchers pinpoint Nepalese soldiers as the source of last year’s deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti.
A new yeast species found in Patagonia appears to be the missing half of the long-used lager yeast.
Researchers who suggest psychological contributors to chronic fatigue syndrome receive death threats from activists.
New testing technologies and improved communication among regulatory agencies are making strides in the fight against foodborne disease.
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii furthers its transmission by making rats go wild for the scent of cat urine.
Researchers design a synthetic bacterium that kills the infectious microbe Pseudomonas aeruginosa, sacrificing itself in the process.
Statistician Paul Meier, who championed the random assignment of patients to treatment groups in clinical trials, changed the way the researchers test experimental drugs.
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.