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Researchers identify a possible driver of acute flaccid myelitis, a polio-like disease diagnosed in more than 500 children over the last few years.

With her husband, she studied allergic reactions and identified antibodies that set off itching, wheezing, and rashes.

The agency issued a safety warning after two patients contracted antibiotic-resistant infections and one of the patients died.

More than 20 percent of survey respondents said they had experienced some form of harassment within the last 12 months.

An amendment to the 2020 funding bill would prohibit the Trump administration from convening ethics advisory boards to review funding proposals involving the tissues.

A decade-long study tallies the numbers of pest-eating, flower-pollinating hoverflies that travel to the UK every year, and illustrates their important ecological roles in southern Britain.

A brazier and charred stones, thought to be part of burial ceremonies, preserve signs that people used the drug thousands of years ago.

The cases, which spread from the outbreak in the DRC, include a five-year-old boy who died.

PubPeer commenters have flagged more than 100 papers from branches of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research for apparent image duplication and other issues.

The most extensive global survey of plant extinctions to date reveals cause for concern.

Nine months after a fire destroyed priceless collections, scientists are working restore the archives and keep their research afloat.

The move reflects scientists using more cell lines and organoids in genetic research, although some experts disagree with the decision to scale back the use of animal models.