A case study of two patients with advanced cancer shows it might be possible to avoid a common and severe side effect of immunotherapy treatment.

Numerous experimental vaccines that aim to provide multi-season protection are in human studies.

A report also concludes that an investment of $2 per person per year could forestall that fate.

Circadian rhythms heavily influence how our bodies use energy, a small study suggests.

Blind rats are made to see after sheets of cells implanted into their eyes make themselves at home.

A zebrafish model of the birth defect craniosynostosis provides insights into how the condition develops.

The new data could help identify treatments for diseases ranging from river blindness to schistosomiasis.

The results cannot be extrapolated to humans, researchers caution.

A photograph of microbes producing the antibiotic actinorhodin is one of many images on display at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History this winter.