Every year bacteria kill more than a million people worldwide through infections that no longer respond to antibiotics. In many cases, why those bacteria are so hard to stop comes down to their uniquely powerful structure. Now, scientists in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, with colleagues from Dartmouth College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, have solved a key mystery about how those bacteria work

Columbia scientists caught a malaria parasite in the act of breaking into a blood cell, revealing a parasite machine that reshapes the cell from the inside. They then designed a mini-protein to jam it. 

A single-shot vaccine under development at the University at Buffalo could protect against flu, COVID-19 and RSV simultaneously. In a study published Friday (June 26) in Science Advances, the researchers found that their three-in-one vaccine triggered protective immunity against all three respiratory diseases in mice, ferrets and cotton rats.

The financial cost of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) negatively impacts people’s mental health and leads them to forego medications, delay or avoid medical care, and alter major financial plans, according to a new study in the May 2026 issue of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation, a peer-reviewed, open access journal.