Readers know that mSphere was launched in 2015 as a pan-microbial, multidisciplinary open-access journal that publishes high-quality, high-impact work across the microbial sciences. However, some may ...

A University of California, Riverside-led team has made an advance in the basic understanding of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for the deadliest form of human malaria, that could mak...

The 2025 funding cuts to malaria programmes put millions of additional lives at risk and could reverse decades of progress earned

Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

A promising clinical trial marks another milestone for the CRISPR gene editor

The United States joined Russia to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine Monday in a stunning shift from years of US policy.

They’re in our blood and our brains. They’re in newborns and the elderly, urban and rural, rich and poor. What are they doing to our bodies?

Earlier this month, the National Institutes of Health issued supplemental guidance indicating it would immediately impose a 15% cap on indirect costs for research grants, an unprecedented and abrup…

As researchers representing universities across the country, the last few weeks have been filled with uncertainty. As you are aware, the Trump administration’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) prop...

The Academy elected 65 new fellows to the Class of 2025.

Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

White House wants to reduce indirect payments from 28% to 10%

Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars

Dismantling of USAID could disrupt many clinical trials and wipe away U.S. “soft power” in developing countries, scientists warn

Chaos extends to CDC, which is shuttering websites in “data apocalypse”

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The MPM XXXVI website is now online

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Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”

Author summary Toxoplasma gondii is a is a unicellular eukaryotic pathogen that infects a wide range of animals. Pathogenesis of this parasite relies on its ability to rapidly proliferate and dissemin...

Nature Communications - Ruivo et al uncover a Toxoplasma survival mechanism conserved across different cell types and species. By repressing NF-kB activation and lytic host cell death pathways, the...