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This film explores the evolutionary connection between an infectious disease, malaria, and a genetic condition, sickle cell disease.

This video follows biologist Elinor Karlsson, who studies dogs to find genes associated with traits, including certain diseases.

This video presents an intriguing phenomenon: two patients who carry the same genetic variation, which is known to cause sickle cell disease, have very different outcomes.

This video shows how a group of students, scientists, and volunteers came together to make hand sanitizer and masks for their community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oxygen levels have dropped in hundreds of lakes in the United States and Europe over the last four decades, a new study found.

With demand for COVID-19 vaccines outpacing the world’s supplies, a frustrated public and policymakers want to know: How can we get more? A lot more. Right away.

The world’s vital insect kingdom is undergoing “death by a thousand cuts,” the world’s top bug experts said.

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped revive the autopsy.

This four-part animation series explores the biology of the virus SARS-CoV-2, which has caused a global pandemic of the disease COVID-19.

Every year, as many as 400 million people are infected with life-threatening diseases by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. It wasn’t always so dangerous.

Across the U.S. and in Europe, researchers and health officials say they can track the course of a community outbreak of the new coronavirus by studying the waste flushed from its bathrooms. And that can provide a valuable addition to public health tools, they say.

For centuries, scientists have obsessed over a primordial blob that can shape-shift, clone itself, and live indefinitely.