Big data and empirical approaches to understanding diseases provide a limited picture of pathogenesis.

Scientists are using social media to track diseases and understand how people respond to them.

Officials’ increased emphasis on mosquito control could benefit public health efforts beyond the ongoing Zika outbreak. 

How visual materials and methods can save scientists time and money.

The grant-review process plays significant roles in the education of researchers and in shaping scientific progress.

An apology for basic research

Nutrition research must overcome pseudoscientific measures and self-interest to make progress in the fight against obesity.

The patient, who has ALS, is able to communicate in complete sentences by deliberately altering his brain’s activity.

Samantha Maragh has taken on the difficult challenge of standardizing assays, data norms, and terminology in the ever evolving genome editing field.

Our handbook on best practices for quality assurance in biomedicine can help funding agencies shore up research integrity—which is especially needed at a time when mistakes can have outsize effects.