With an infusion of public and private resources and accelerated regulatory processes, a handful of companies are racing to develop a vaccine to curb the Ebola epidemic.

Researchers generate the first functional human stomach tissue in vitro.

Assistant Professor, Neurobiology Section, University of California, San Diego. Age: 35

Individual neurons in the dorsomedial striatum integrate responses to sight and touch.

Meet some of the people featured in the November 2014 issue of The Scientist.

Scientist to Watch, Takaki Komiyama, discusses his use of chronic two-photon calcium imaging to explore how wakefulness and experience shape odor representations in the mouse olfactory bulb.

A freelance journalist and a cancer researcher have won this year’s John Maddox Prize.

A genetically diverse group of mice represents the complete spectrum of human outcomes from Ebola virus infection.

Researchers resurrect a virus from 700-year-old frozen feces found in northern Canada.

In a small study, 50-to-69-year-olds performed better on a pattern recognition test after drinking antioxidants found in cocoa.

The World Health Organization reports four locally acquired cases of the virus in the country.

A new kind of microscopy uses a lattice of light to visualize biological processes with extraordinary spatial and temporal resolution.