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The roundworm uses cues from visible light to help avoid eating toxic bacteria with a distinguishing hue.

Clinics are popping up around the US to study the sometimes long-lasting effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and teens.

Sam Wilson discusses a user-friendly set of resources that he and his collaborators developed to aid labs pivoting to study COVID-19.

The species include the first reptile to be listed and the Christmas Island pipistrelle, a bat last seen in 2009.

A review article containing contested claims about the tropical medicine drug as a COVID-19 treatment was listed as “provisionally accepted” on the journal’s website before being removed this week.

The P.1 variant, which has also been detected in five US states, could be responsible for cases of reinfection, according to a preprint.

A study offers a new explanation for how exercise strengthens bones and the immune system.

A treatment of two monoclonal antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 is ninefold less effective in the lab against the B.1.351 variant than against the dominant version of the virus.

Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot immunization could reach people’s arms as early as March 2.

The network effect can improve the ways that biomedical researchers collaborate.

Researchers say they have discovered a novel species of comb jelly using video footage, but they couldn’t recover a physical specimen. Is that enough?

Cells found in different branches of a tree have different patterns of DNA methylation, changes in which accumulate over time.