Scientists share their work by publishing articles in journals, such as Nature, Science or PLOS Biology. One major part of the publishing process involves having these manuscripts reviewed by unpaid ...

Drug-resistant bacteria are becoming harder to treat, pushing scientists to look for new antibiotic targets. Researchers have now discovered that several unrelated viruses disable a key bacterial ...

Most people think of heart disease, kidney disease and diabetes as separate problems. In reality, they are tightly ...

The La Jolla-based research institute continues its founding principle of collaboration across multiple fields ...

Antibiotic resistance is rising fast, killing tens of thousands each year in the U.S. alone—and scientists are racing to find ...

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University and the author of eight books, most recently “Livewired.” ...

Scientists have identified a new way to distinguish healthy guts from diseased ones and track how some illnesses progress by measuring how gut bacteria interact with one another. According to a study ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

Chronic pain is one of the most common health conditions worldwide. Back pain is the most frequently reported type, followed closely by head and face pain linked to the jaw joint, in the form of ...

To measure how bacterial communities shift between health and disease, the team developed a new metric called the Ecological ...

Each year, approximately 36,000 people are diagnosed with the disease in the United States, according to the American Cancer ...