Can a Maligned Pesticide Save Lives?
DDT may be a useful public-health tool—until its effect wears off... 11.20.2007
The Year in Science: Biology
Giant squid sighting, mice that regenerate body parts, sweet-smelling parasites, and more. 01.09.2006
Infectious Diseases
The race is on to develop medicines faster and keep ahead of bacteria and viruses. 10.24.2005
Fighting the Parasite from Hell
Deaths from malaria are rising as older medicines fail 08.06.2005
Discover Data
06.06.2005
Mosquito Barricade
04.28.2005
Making a New Mosquito
Will tinkering make mosquitoes better or worse? 05.01.2001
Now Arriving at Gate One: MALARIA
03.01.2001
Magnets Against Malaria
07.01.2000
Nasty, Brutish, and Dirty
02.01.1999
A Sleeping Storm
Sleeping sickness - once thought to be vanquished - is raging back across Africa. At the center of the epidemic, an American doctor is trying to clear a small patch of good health. 08.01.1998
Malarial Dreams
Malaria kills 2.7 million people each year, most of them children. As a new generation of vaccines begin clinical trials, researchers wonder if they've finally got this killer beat. 03.01.1998
The Year in Science: Medicine 1997
Perchance to Die 01.01.1998
The Dream Vaccine
The world craves an effective, risk-free vaccine against recalcitrant foes like AIDS and malaria. Creating mock infections with tiny rings of bacterial DNA may be the answer. 09.01.1997
Bad Air Gets Worse
03.01.1996
Race Without Color
Basing race on body chemistry makes no more sense than basing race on appearance--but at least you get to move the membership around. 11.01.1994
New Victories in an Old War
06.01.1993