Biology

The U.S. is still far behind other countries when it comes to doing enough of the lab work needed to keep track of the variants of SARS-CoV-2.

Photographer Nikki Johnson got a backstage pass to roam the diseased body parts not seen by the public at the Mütter Museum.

Worldwide, researchers are hunting for a kind of `secret sauce’ — a souped-up enzyme capable of breaking down some of the most resilient plastics.

Whole genome sequencing checks for coronavirus variants. The city and the university are working out the details of a partnership going forward.

Many patients who are hospitalized for COVID-19 are discharged with symptoms such as those associated with a brain injury.

The emergence of COVID-19 started scientists on a year-long, crash course to learn how this virus travels through the air and how to stop it. They learned a lot, and quickly.

As a budding school teacher was having a stroke at age 22, medical professionals kept explaining her symptoms away and sending her home. Until her mom stepped in.

The Brandywine Zoo’s new lemur exhibit is part of a species survival plan and is one step in the biggest capital improvement plan in the zoo’s 115-year history.

Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Open to new experiences, or comforted by routine? Shy or the life of the party? Figuring out what m ...

COVID-19 can cause symptoms that go well beyond the lungs, from strokes to organ failure. So esearchers are studying how the virus affects the vascular system.

Across the region, WHYY readers and listeners report an increase in wildlife in and around their local waterways. Is that a good sign for the watershed?

Many don’t perceive jokes that rely on sarcasm and dual meanings. Improv comedy can help with understanding that, and teach other life skills.

In science, we tend to focus on the destination, not the journey. But for every big breakthrough, every historic discovery, there are cou ...

Trump is on day two of a planned 5-day course of remdesivir. The medication works by making it harder for the coronavirus to replicate within the body.

One study is trying to help scientists and researchers answer one big question: Just how does the virus that causes COVID-19 spread from one person to another?