Drug/vaccine development
The chimps may be using insects as a kind of medicine.
New research zooms in on the outer surface of the coronavirus to reveal more about how COVID-19 scars the lungs.
A month’s worth of cool science stories.
A vaccine could confer long-term protection even if a natural infection does not.
The research that won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine has saved millions of lives, but it has not yet led to a vaccine.
3 Share Physiology or Medicine Nobel for Discovering the Hepatitis C Virus
The unprecedented pace of scientific progress on Covid-19 builds on groundbreaking discoveries from the past.
Machine learning turbocharges the process of identifying molecules to test for bacteria-attacking properties.
A new way to treat deadly MRSA infections, gets the blue light.
Checkpoint inhibitors lift the brakes on the immune system, but may join other new drugs in pressing the accelerator on health care costs.
Some cannabis-derived treatments are now being tested for their ability to help certain skin diseases
The theory of what causes the disease and how it develops may be wrong.