A set of stairs on campus dead ends into a nondescript white door. Beyond the door, situated in one of the building’s towers, is a new research lab that is home to a colony of vampire bats. The story of how the bats came to occupy the belfry isn’t spooky but did involve a bit of collaborative magic. In two short months, staff from Princeton…

The discovery of a potent combination of two antibiotics could provide a solution to both the infection and its recurrence.

Imagine it’s flu season, and that tickle in the back of your throat has turned into symptoms bad enough to drive you to visit your doctor. Your physician would ideally run some tests to diagnose what pathogen is afflicting you, but unless they are at a large hospital, they may not have access to the complicated, costly tests they need. That’s…

Soon after the birth of her second child, Katie Silpe started freezing her breast milk for the period ahead when she would return to work. When she thawed the milk later, however, her baby refused to drink it. Detecting a noticeable change in both taste and smell, Katie realized her stored milk was unusable. 

2023 marks the fifth year of the NIH-funded New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) TL1 fellowship program. Two…

Three Princeton laboratories teamed up to develop a method for studying gene expression patterns of individual bacteria in unprecedented detail.

Viruses, like movie villains, operate in one of two ways: chill or kill.

They can lie low, quietly infiltrating the body’s defenses, or go on the attack, making many copies of themselves that explode out of hiding and fire in all directions. Viral attacks are almost always suicide missions, ripping apart the cell that the virus has been…

Flying squirrels, sugar gliders and bats haven’t had a common ancestor in 160 million years, but they form their wing flaps using some of the same genetic ingredients.

That’s the intriguing finding from a Princeton-led team of biologists, detailed recently in the journal Science Advances. In other words, when the seven known flying…

Scientists have never known precisely how much energy a cancerous tumor expends growing in the mammalian body.

They hypothesized that it consumes a great deal of energy, churning through nutrients and putting healthy tissue – the heart, the liver, the pancreas – at a disadvantage as the metabolic system spreads the nutritive…

When a friend asked Kristina Olson how to support their young child — who heard “It’s a boy!” at birth but who was now saying “I’m a girl” — Olson thought, “I’m a developmental psychologist. I’ll read the literature, and then I can tell her what it says.”

But she quickly discovered that there were no papers in the peer-reviewed…