To prevent viruses from sickening or killing us—whether it's an individual case of hepatitis B or a COVID pandemic—it's ...

The virus did indeed infect and wipe out dopamine-producing neurons, and more importantly, the motor control problems that ...

A new tool has just vastly broadened the scale at which researchers can study these proteins, promising to speed basic ...

Historically, outbreak research has been fragmented, delayed, and poorly integrated into emergency response. By the time protocols are developed, collaborations organised, funding secured, and ...

Angela Belcher, the James Mason Crafts Professor of Biological Engineering and a professor of materials science at MIT, ...

Abstract: Patches can be distributed through technological networks at a high rate, targeting a sufficient fraction of nodes. This selective and rapid automated process not only prevents and contains ...

Harvard professor Sean Eddy, whose federal funding was terminated by the Trump administration last year, describes the loss as a "10-year hit to a lab." ...

Seven people aboard a cruise ship may have gotten hantavirus, a deadly illness more often associated with breathing in desert or other land dust. How could that happen? Risk to the general public is ...

Penn State scientists uncovered an ancient bacterial defense where dormant viral DNA helps bacteria fight new viral threats. The enzyme PinQ flips bacterial genes to create protective proteins that ...

We have put together stories from our coverage on science from the past two weeks to help you stay informed. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please considersubscribing. 1. China’s ...

Tal Feldman is a student at Yale Law School who formerly built AI and data tools for U.S. government agencies. Jonathan Feldman is a computer science and biology student at Georgia Institute of ...

Scientists have created the first ever viruses designed by artificial intelligence (AI), and they’re capable of hunting down and killing strains of Escherichia coli (E. coli). “This is the first time ...