The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has underscored the critical need to better understand the human immune system and how to unleash its power to develop vaccines and therapeutics. Much of our knowledge of the immune system has accrued from studies in mice, yet vaccines and drugs that work effectively in mice do not always translate into humans. Pulendran and Davis review recent…
Intrinsically safe designs and a staged transparent development process will be essential
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Highly deformable platelet-like particles mitigate bleeding, improve healing responses, and exhibit renal clearance in small and large animal models.
A new biography celebrates the Spaniard who founded modern neuroscience
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Overlooked by the oil industry, natural hydrogen could power society for thousands of years
Study reveals family histories of black-haired Vikings who set forth—and died—far from home
Nesting chinstrap penguins accrue large quantities of sleep through seconds-long microsleeps
COVER About 250 cichlid fish species have evolved in Africa’s Lake Tanganyika in less than 10 million years. Researchers have now linked exploratory behavior to…
There’s a scene in the movie Oppenheimer in which the protagonist is trying to explain to General Groves, his military overseer, the hazards of their…
