A new global organisation is trying to prevent dramatic advances in bioscience from unleashing engineered pathogens from the lab, and wants research funders, scientists and journals to help. The International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science (IBBIS) warns that scientists might be able to order the DNA of dangerous pathogens like smallpox from unregulated companies, and wants much tighter screening of the industry.

Millions of people around the world have received the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19. Now the team behind BioNTech is receiving Germany's biggest award for medicine.

Researchers in Mali have been working for decades on the treatment that's now in the final phase of clinical trials.

Technology that speeded the development of Covid vaccines has potential to transform the pharmaceutical industry.

HHMI announces the selection of 21 exceptional early career scientists as 2020 Hanna Gray Fellows to support diversity in biomedical research. The 2022 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program competition will open later this year.

Scientists have dreamed about the possibilities of custom-made messenger RNA. The pandemic may turn those possibilities into realilty.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute's six-figure donation is a step towards addressing racial injustice in the sciences.

Microsoft Excel: 1 - Human Genetics: 0.

Europe PMC, the literature archive of EMBL-EBI, has started indexing full-text COVID-19 preprints and the associated data.

23 New Grants Support Essential Open Source Tools in Biomedicine. 

While Moderna blitzed the media, it revealed very little information - and most of what it did disclose were words, not data.

The extreme metabolism of some snakes could provide leads on how to regenerate human tissue.

Bioscience publishing, from preprint servers to established medical journals, is finding new and faster ways to publish Covid-19 research results.

Academic scientists and research institutes are increasingly being evaluated using digital metrics, from bibliometrics to patent counts. These metrics are often framed, by science policy analysts, economists of science as well as funding agencies, as objective and universal proxies for scientific worth, potential, and productivity.

The present outbreak of lower respiratory tract infections, including respiratory distress syndrome, is the third spillover, in only two decades, of an animal coronavirus to humans resulting in a major epidemic.

They are considered the probable source of the coronavirus outbreak spreading from China. It turns out that they may have an immune system that lets them coexist with many disease-causing viruses.

Preprints, or versions of manuscripts posted online by authors ahead of peer review, are seeing a strong increase in adoption and recognition among many communities in the biomedical sciences.