Today is World AIDS Day, and three neighboring countries in southern Africa that have been hard-hit by HIV received remarkably good news. As part of…
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Young women in sub-Saharan Africa are living through a “particularly dangerous time” when it comes to risk of HIV infection, according to the annual World…
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A two-pronged HIV vaccine strategy that delivered lackluster results in a trial in Thailand 7 years ago will get another chance in South Africa. Last…
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The sheer size of the Ebola epidemic that began in 2013 and engulfed West Africa is still a bit of a riddle for scientists. Previous…
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In the beginning of 2013, Michael Wiles sat down with high-level managers of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, and told them about a…
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I speak biology fluently, but the molecular complexities of the novel genome-editing tool called CRISPR left me as befuddled as when I peruse descriptions of…
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During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens…
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COLD SPRING HARBOR, NEW YORK—When I walked into the dining hall of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) here at dusk on 13 October,…
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“Fascinating.” “A complete first.” “Striking.” “Too amazing to be real.” Those are some of the reactions researchers are having to a provocative, baffling monkey study…
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