A human trial of a hepatitis C treatment is shut down after one of the participants died.
A human trial of a hepatitis C treatment is shut down after one of the participants died.
Another person has died from the rodent-borne disease after visiting Yosemite National Park.
Researchers consider the recent reappearance of West Nile virus in Texas and the efforts to control it.
Mice with inflammatory bowel disease harbor gut bacteria that damage host DNA, predisposing mice to cancer.
Irving Geis’s revolutionary painting of sperm whale myoglobin illuminated the nascent field of protein structure.
“The body is a fascinating machine,” says Sandra Shefelbine, a biomechanics expert at Imperial College, London, in this 3-minute educational video by the Wellcome Trust illustrating the principles of muscle movement. “And we don’t understand most of
The first full computer model of a single-celled organism mimics the bacterium’s behaviors and paves the way to more complete disease models.
Rather than rely on plant-derived products, biotech companies are engineering bacteria and yeast to produce ingredients for fragrances.
The recently hyped amoeba-flagellate Collodictyon has many secrets to tell about early eukaryotic evolution.
The discovery of the 2.5-million-year-old Taung Child skull marked a turning point in the study of human brain evolution.