The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

In September, David Baltimore — the scientist who discovered reverse transcriptase, a breakthrough often described as one of ...

Toxoplasmosis: How a deadly parasite infects its host cells Researchers at LMU in collaboration with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg have discovered how the parasite ...

A new study of 1960s maps, many of which were created by young people, has provided important fresh evidence of the timing and extent of habitat losses caused by agricultural intensification and urban ...

One hundred years ago the birth of immunology was made official by the Nobel Prize award to Elie Metchnikoff and Paul Ehrlich. Metchnikoff discovered phagocytosis by macrophages and microphages as a ...