Roxanne Khamsi

Whenever a new virus emerges—be it HIV or SARS-CoV-2—a few lucky people put up a potent natural defense. Monoclonal antibody drugs let them share the health.

Prioritize people who are immunocompromised for early vaccination.

If we could watch what’s really going on in hospitals, there would be no more complacency.

Official guidance seems handed down from on high, rather than based on studies. That will make it harder to beat Covid-19.

Hospitalizations for the disease are at their peak, but the death rate is way down. The simple procedure of flipping people over may be an important reason why.

Some of the leading candidates might work better for the richest people in the world, simply on account of how they're made.

Amodiaquine, a related treatment for malaria, can beat back Covid-19 in hamsters. But if this drug, too, gets overhyped, there will be awful consequences.

How did an African green monkey that died in 1962 get involved in the biggest research debacle of this pandemic?

Scholars have long warned that constant polling is bad for democracy. In a pandemic, it’s also bad for public health.

We hoped that Covid-19 would be a seasonal infection. We hoped wrong.

There's more than a century of research linking clogged blood vessels to infectious diseases.

Is there a lesson in this repeating failure? Would we even learn it if there was?

The word 'airborne' means different things to different scientists, and that confusion needs to be addressed.

Ground squirrels do it. So do human fetuses. How did we all end up with this unhygienic habit?

The whataboutism of infectious disease is as dangerous as it is hackneyed.

Most advanced-stage cancers mutate, resisting drugs meant to kill them. Now doctors are harnessing the principles of evolution to thwart that lethal adaptation.

Some scientists are looking for human DNA in mosquitoes to understand mosquito-borne disease.

Countries in Eastern Europe and former Soviet republics are scrambling to enact laws to prevent the distribution of pirated music and movies. But they have their work cut out for them. Roxanne Khamsi reports from Riga, Latvia.

Many tout fuel cells as the answer to our energy woes, but capturing hydrogen gas requires great amounts of electricity. So scientists are tinkering with microorganisms, from common yeast to ocean-dwelling bacteria, to come up with a reliable power source. By Roxanne Khamsi.

Micro fuel cells are being used in products to power traffic systems, laptops and RV appliances. Portable electronic devices can go longer without recharging, according to manufacturers. By Roxanne Khamsi.