Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules

An intense new chapter

In early 2020, researchers everywhere united, scrambling to address a singular, urgent problem: a virus that was devastating the world. How they work and collaborate might never again be the same—it might be better.

Laboratory of Molecular Immunology

The problem with Zika

Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center

An end in sight

Medical science is holding its breath. For decades, the most it could do for people with HIV was to prevent them from dying of AIDS. Now, new therapies are raising hopes for something more: a world in which the virus will no longer cause suffering or fear.

Laboratory of Molecular Immunology

Magic bullets in the blood