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PLOS author John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy, and of Statistics at Stanford University, considers how the scientific community can move toward greater truth in published research.

Science is great, not only because it generates knowledge and helps us create technologies that make our lives easier, but also because it brings people together. If we embrace science-based decision-making, we can make a huge impact on our society!

If you like comic book heroes, you’ll love this action-packed video of a microbe with a superpower reminiscent of a miniature Spiderman. Here, for the first time ever, scientists have captured in real-time—and in very cool detail—the important mechanism of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria.

Like an underwater pokéball, this origami-inspired sampling device folds up into a container for capturing delicate marine organisms.

David Lacks & Veronica Robinson share Henrietta Lacks' story and how it has helped shape bioethics policies and medial consent laws.

With their powers combined, coffee and naps create a greater sum than their parts.

A war has been raging for billions of years, killing trillions every single day, while we don’t even notice. This war involves the single deadliest being on our planet: The Bacteriophage.

A Capella Science parodies "Mr Sandman" with his latest video (and hopefully teaches you something about CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing).

In a TedTalk, journalist Jennifer Kahn discusses exciting technology that utilizes the gene editing technology CRISPR to try and achieve a grand goal: eradicating malaria and zika through the development of resistant mosquitoes.

Proteomics is the comprehensive study of the complete set of proteins in an organism (called the proteome). Analyzing the proteome of a patient’s cancer can also provide information on how to best diagnose and treat the patient.