Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

The President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), launched in 2003 by President George W. Bush, is one of the most successful global health programs in history. Yet PEPFAR is under threat from ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded three new Centers for Accelerating Phage Therapy to Combat ESKAPE Pathogens (CAPT-CEP)—the first coordinated U.S. research...

New research finds lack of resources, language barriers persist in this Inuit region, where Red Cross has been called to help with TB.

AIDS activism was exceptionally successful. Other areas of global health can and must use the AIDS activism playbook.

NIH’s sudden move to multiyear grant funding is forcing shocking cuts in the number of grants funded. This is an effective budget cut. It's bad, folks.

SMBE is delighted to announce our 2025 Faculty Award Winners! Early-Career Excellence Award winner: Alison Feder Alison Feder is an Assistant Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washingt...

Pyruvate is the end-product of glycolysis and a central metabolite involved in many biochemical pathways. However, a lack of high-performance (i.e., Δ F / F > 10) single fluorescent protein (FP)-base...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

U.S. aid cuts could jeopardize the supply of donated drugs that are hailed for their effectiveness in combating neglected diseases like river blindness, schistosomiasis and trachoma.

A large government study shows that Americans’ self-reported race is a poor proxy for their genetic ancestry.

US National Science Foundation announces lowest number of Graduate Research Fellowship Programme recipients in 15 years.

The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases. "We are blind," an expert says.

Task errors are used to learn and refine motor skills. We investigated how task assistance influences learned neural representations using Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs), which map neural activity i...

A number of grant proposals have disappeared from scientists’ review pipelines, with little explanation. Applicants are bewildered and frustrated.

First they came for the D-SPAN awards, and I did not speak out—because I was not a person of color aspiring to a postdoctoral position of my own choice. Then they came for the diversity F31s, and I…