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Infectious Disease
It weakens the bacteria so that the immune system can destroy it.
Three years after the pandemic began, we still don't know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.
About 8% of our genome is made of leftover viruses from our ancestors' infections.
The crabs' blue blood contains an ancient immune defense mechanism that has helped save countless human lives.
Just as human beings diversified so that people in Asia look different from people in Europe, so too did their microbiomes.
The spray uses snippets of DNA to gum up virus replication.
HIV mutates rapidly, which has made the development of a vaccine an enormous challenge for decades. Finally, we might have one.
When we feel sick, it's not just the pathogen to blame. Our brain cranks up the temperature, and the neurons responsible finally have been found.
Many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too.
The antibodies elicited by the "S2 vaccine" not only neutralize COVID's multiple strains but also coronaviruses that cause the common cold.
An interview with CRISPR co-discoverer and Nobel Prize-winner Dr. Jennifer Doudna.
John Templeton Foundation
It’s simple to make, easy to use, and should work against any variant.
The good news is that it can be countered with acne medication.
Two ICU physicians offer a new approach to stopping it.
There's a fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.
This isn't America's first rodeo with monkeypox. In 2003, the virus swept across America thanks to a shipment of exotic animals.
What you need to know about this smallpox cousin.
SIDS deaths have decreased worldwide, but research has yet to solve this medical mystery.
Shoving platelet-rich plasma up your nose might restore your sense of smell after COVID. But whether it actually works still needs to be sniffed out.
An emerging field studies parasites that take over the nervous system of a host.
Standard probiotics cannot compare to the diversity that your microbes have.
Mutations that confer malaria resistance occur more frequently in people who live in regions where the disease is endemic.
COVID-19 and other microbes have shed light on disease spillover from animals to humans, but we can also spillback disease to wildlife.
The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.
A boy in Germany seems to be the first person to be cured of a rare and painful skin condition commonly called "butterfly disease."
The book "The Genesis Machine" outlines the promise and peril of synthetic biology, a powerful tool that will allow us to program life like a computer.
Centuries ago, the plague forced people into quarantine for years. Isaac Newton and Galileo used the time to revolutionize the world.
We don't know with 100% certainty where SARS-CoV-2 first came from or how it first infected humans. But not all options are equally likely.
Forget little green men: These scientists say we should be more worried about little green germs.