I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations ...

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The age at which a person is diagnosed with autism can be partly explained by genetic factors.

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Shutdowns “can have a significant impact on the scientific research enterprise, and a lot of that does depend on how long a ...

The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can ...

A tool called Funding the Frontier visualizes all the downstream impacts of funding — and predicts which studies will have ...

Thousands of previously undescribed protein–metabolite interactions have been mapped by analysing outbred mice.

Outlining the trial-and-error processes that are involved in every research project could help others to become more ...

Bacteria insert proteins into their outer membrane using a highly conserved apparatus known as the β-barrel assembly ...

Some bacterial-infecting viruses use ‘sponges’ to mop up defence molecules, but bacteria can fight back by responding when a ...