Numerous candidates with STEM backgrounds are running for federal seats, and record numbers are competing in local races across the country.

From hospitals and college campuses to remote villages in French Guiana, scientists have pit the two approaches against one other. See which one comes out ahead.

Although scientists debate the ethics of deliberately infecting volunteers with SARS-CoV-2, plenty of consenting participants have been exposed to all sorts of pathogens in prior trials.

As the hiring season gets underway, academic listings are still way down from last year, but there are signs of the job market picking back up.

The pandemic has forced scientists everywhere to rethink in-person conferences, but some researchers have already been urging changes.  

Adeno-associated viral vectors can deliver gene therapies, but AAV-neutralizing antibodies might prevent the medicines from working.

Several organizations suggest that a case against a University of Kansas professor is the latest example of the US government targeting researchers for their ethnicity.

Researchers are trying to make sense of immune systems gone haywire and develop biomarkers to predict who will become the sickest from a coronavirus infection.

Researchers are adapting CRISPR, synthetic biology, and other creative approaches to detect SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acids outside of the lab or doctors’ offices, in the hopes of making diagnostics more affordable and accessible.