Why China Is Still Stuck in a Zero-Covid Nightmare
Protesters are calling for China to ease restrictions most nations have already ditched. But the country faces a fraught path toward normalcy. ..
Protesters are calling for China to ease restrictions most nations have already ditched. But the country faces a fraught path toward normalcy. ..
New evidence indicates that an effort to stamp out disease-carrying insects is working. The key? Mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill off their own kind. ..
Antimicrobials cost as much to develop as other drugs, but don’t earn the same returns. Congress could give drugmakers a boost, but time is running out. ..
A small study of people with a rare disorder that prevents them from processing protein is an early attempt at creating “living” medicines. ..
The US government is funding tech to determine whether genetic alterations in a virus or pest are an evolutionary quirk—or a lab-engineered danger. ..
These cells—and the way they reawaken—can tell biologists quite a lot about life, death, and the gray zone in between. ..
The Covid virus can infect many animal species. The variant that tore through human populations last winter may have previously circulated in rodents. ..
Florida’s storms unleashed deadly vibrio bacteria in their wake. They’ll be a growing threat as the world gets warmer and wetter. ..
Public health officials are racing to contain an outbreak in Uganda. It’s an urgent warning to the rest of the world. ..
An experiment tests whether the gene-editing technology can stop the virus from replicating, which would ultimately wipe out the infection. ..