Bacteria that live in the digestive tracts of animals may influence the adaptive trajectories of their hosts.

Understanding the biological roots of cooperation might help resolve some of the biggest scientific challenges we face.

Recent advances in modeling the human placenta, the least understood organ, may inform placental disorders like preeclampsia.

Digging into how and why some genes are resurrected after death sounds morbid, but it has practical applications. 

Meet some of the people featured in the June 2020 issue of The Scientist.

Chairman: Arnold Levine, chairman, department of molecular biology, Princeton University Barry Bloom, Weinstock Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator, department of microbiology and immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York Rebecca Buckley, professor of pediatrics and immunology, Duke University Medical Center Charles Carpenter, chairman, Office of AIDS Research Advisory Committee; professor of medicine,Brown University School of Medicine Don

George Church is at it again, this time using multiplex gene editing to create virus-proof cells, improve organ transplant success, and protect elephants.

Bacteria in the gut influence the production of antibodies and themselves secrete metabolites. In a pregnant woman, these compounds may influence immune development of her fetus.

Bacteria inhabit most tissues in the human body, and genes from some of these microbes have made their way to the human genome. Could this genetic transfer contribute to diseases such as cancer?

In people with the genetic condition, inflammation can cause a mild infection to snowball out of control, a study finds.