By 2050, scientists estimate that antibiotic-resistant infections will be associated with more than 8 million deaths around ...

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

Lee J. Martin, Professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses neonatal encephalopathy and his recent research into neonatal brain injury ...

You've seen the famous aliens, planets and scientists, but now it's time to venture even farther into the depths of space.

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Yibin Zhu’s work highlights how microbiota from both the hosts and vectors can either promote or suppress virus transmission.

When viruses travel through the air in tiny droplets, they can quickly start to dry out. Yet many viruses remain infectious ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

For nearly half a century, scientists have known that malaria parasites force their way into human red blood cells through a ring-shaped structure called the moving junction. What no one could work ...

Researchers have, for the first time, estimated how quickly E. coli bacteria can spread between people — and one strain moves as fast as swine flu. Using genomic data from the UK and Norway, ...