Germany Learns from E. Coli Outbreak

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By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Germany aims to shorten the time it takes for information on infectious-disease outbreaks to reach federal authorities from up to 18 days to just three, after this year's outbreak of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli killed 53 people. [More]

Engineered Bacteria Secrete Another Species’ Toxin to Kill It

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By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Engineered bacteria that can detect and kill human pathogens could provide a new way to treat antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Antibody That Binds to All Influenza A Viruses Could Lead to a Universal Flu Vaccine

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By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Scientists have found an antibody that inactivates all influenza A subtypes. [More]

Big Donation Drives Effort to End Lab Tests on Dogs

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By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Man's best friend bears a heavy burden in the pharmaceutical industry. [More]

Aerodynamic-Sensing Hairs on Wings Keep Bats Flying

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By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Bats use tiny hairs to sense the speed and direction of air flowing over their wings.

Phage May Have Been Key to Europe’s Deadly E. Coli Outbreak

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By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Women, beansprouts, cucumbers, bacteria, cows: the cast of the current European Escherichia coli outbreak is already a crowd. [More]

Stem Cells Repair Muscle Damaged by Heart Attack

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By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Time might heal metaphorical heartbreak, but an injured heart can rarely repair itself. [More]

Microbe Outbreak Panics Europe

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By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Munich Confronted with what has become one of the world's most severe outbreaks of Escherichia coli, physicians and scientists in Germany say that the country's fractured health-management system has failed to handle the crisis properly.

Childhood Stress Shortens Telomeres, Affecting Future Health

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By Marian Turner of Nature magazine A long-term study of children from Romanian orphanages suggests that the effects of childhood stress could be visible in their DNA as they grow up.

The Evolutionary Tree of Fungi Grows a New Branch

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By Marian Turner of Nature magazine When a research team started analyzing the genetics of micro-organisms from their university pond, they might have expected to find a couple of new species. [More]

Diamonds Deliver on Cancer Treatment

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By Marian Turner Attaching chemotherapy drugs to small particles called nanodiamonds can make the drugs more effective, according to a study published this week in Science Translational Medicine . Anticancer drugs tend to become ineffective because cancer cells quickly pump them out before they have had time to do their work.