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Multiphoton fluorescence image of cultured HeLa cells with a fluorescent protein targeted to the Golgi apparatus (orange), microtubules (green) and counterstained for DNA (cyan).

WHO is releasing new clinical protocols and guidelines to health-care workers for treating the mental health consequences of trauma and loss.

UNICEF has received an emergency contribution of US$1.3 million from the Government of Japan to procure and distribute urgently needed polio vaccines for children in Somalia.

This illustration shows two views of a single unit of the aquaporin-0 channel. The left channel is open, allowing the passage of water molecules (red). The right channel is closed because amino acids in its core have flipped inward.

By borrowing a tool from bacteria that infect plants, scientists have developed a new approach to eliminate mutated DNA inside mitochondria—the energy factories within cells. Doctors might someday use the approach to treat a variety of mitochondrial diseases, including the degenerative eye disease Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON).