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The microbiome is a dynamic environment that can give researchers the inside scoop on health and disease.

While covid has caused illness and millions of deaths among humans, multiple nonhuman animal species have turned out to be susceptible to it, too.

Genetic engineering pioneer Kevin Esvelt’s work highlights biotechnology’s immense potential for good—but also for catastrophe.

Researchers generated complete genomes of two important bat species and explored their immune- and cancer-related genes.

Microbial diversity in the infant gut shrank suddenly during the first lockdown, but the lasting health effects are less clear.

Metagenomic sequencing can help detect unknown pathogens, but its widespread use faces challenges.

Leaving Twitter, improving science communication, understanding the dangers of avian flu, and more

The “tripledemic” shines a spotlight on viral interference, in which one infection can block another.

A clinical trial finds that the anticoagulant apixaban, which has been prescribed to help COVID-19 patients recover, is ineffective and in rare instances dangerous.

In flies and mice, a viral protein increases the rate of energy use by heart cells. But it’s not yet clear if the finding applies to humans.

Bats that experience food shortages due to climate change and habitat loss end up roosting in urban settings, where they shed more of the deadly Hendra virus. 

Natural science research projects were among those promised funding by the now-collapsed crypto exchange’s “effective altruism” foundations.

An expert panel will discuss what researchers have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and what lessons remain for the future. 

Low booster rates and immune-evading SARS-CoV-2 variants could spell bad news, experts say. 

Researchers say they’re abandoning the project in its current form—one of several that aims to induce what’s known as mucosal immunity against SARS-CoV-2.

The key to averting cataclysmic events, such as pandemics, climate change, and mass extinction of species, lies partly in what’s on our plates.

Recent studies have lent support for a variety of hypotheses explaining the debilitating symptoms affecting millions of people after SARS-CoV-2 infection.  

The results from two large clinical trials don't support the idea that supplements of the vitamin bolster immune defenses against SARS-CoV-2.

Launched with a $172 million philanthropic donation and funds from the state of Victoria, the Melbourne-based research institute aims to construct drug discovery platforms to speed the introduction of new therapies.