Biologists have uncovered a new mode of communication inside cells that helps bacterial pathogens learn how to evade drugs.

Climate change is increasingly influencing the dynamics of waterborne pathogens by modifying hydrological regimes, water temperatures, and the frequency and ...

More than a billion cases of foodborne diseases, such as norovirus infections and salmonellosis, are recorded in Africa each ...

Infectious diseases are illnesses caused by pathogenic microorganisms—including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites—that invade a host, replicate, and ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

Scientists have discovered a new, much less invasive method for testing whales for pathogens. In the past, scientists needed ...

A St. Louis biotech startup that can detect diseases from a single breath in under 60 seconds just raised $20 million and is ...

The Xpert GI Panel identifies pathogens directly from stool specimens collected in Cary-Blair transport media.

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

NYC Health + Hospitals announced that three of its acute care hospitals have been named as recipients of the Level 2 Special ...