HPV is more common—and misunderstood—than you think. Here’s what doctors want you to know.

This sexually transmitted infection is almost entirely preventable. Here's what experts say you really need to know to ...

Tightening the focus of subcellular snapshots: Combined approach yields better cell slices for cryoET imaging

Taking images of tiny structures within cells is tricky business. One technique, cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), ...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

What criteria or characteristics would you use to group living things versus nonliving things? Scientists have grappled with this question for years, and the debate is still ongoing in the scientific ...
BioTechniques

Antiviral insights: cryo-EM and optical tweezers reveal more about drug–herpes virus interaction

Researchers use cryo-EM and optical tweezers to investigate how an antiviral interacts with the herpes simplex virus.
WHYY

The Philadelphia region is getting hit with norovirus. Here’s how to avoid this bug

This electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a cluster of norovirus virions. (Charles D. Humphrey/CDC via AP) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to ...

Norovirus cases are increasing in Texas and nationwide. Here is what you need to know

Cases of norovirus have been on the rise since mid-October across the country and in Texas, according to wastewater ...
Digital Journal

‘Great Unified Microscope’ reveals micro- and nano- worlds in a single view

Image by the US National Institutes of Health, CC 3.0 Image by the US National Institutes of Health, CC 3.0 A new dual-light microscope lets researchers observe micro- and nanoscale activity inside ...