Pathogens have been major causes of death and morbidity for millennia and even today are responsible for 3 of the top 10 causes of death worldwide (and 6 of the top 10 in lower income countries), ...

Researchers are unlocking the mystery of how bacteria harness viruses to wipe out the competition. The answers could help spur the development of alternatives to antibiotics. Bacteriophages, viruses ...

Infectious diseases have been major causes of death throughout human history and are assumed to broadly affect human psychology. However, whether and how conceptual processing, an internal world model ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive — and thrive — in human and animal tissues, even within otherwise hostile cells that are part of the ...

The body defends itself against pathogens by depriving them of vital iron. However, this strategy doesn't always succeed against Salmonella. Researchers have discovered that these bacteria ...

Hedgehogs, elephants, pangolins, bears or fennec foxes: many wild species are sold as pets, hunting trophies, for traditional medicine, biomedical research, or for their meat or fur. These practices, ...

The Forum on Microbial Threats will host a public workshop to examine how genomics technologies have been applied to disease surveillance and response and identify potential opportunities for broader ...

Joseph Rotblat, a physicist who quit the Manhattan Project and later helped establish the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, with which he shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, wrote ...

With many experts believing or entertaining the unproven possibility that COVID-19 had its origins in a laboratory, the pandemic re-ignited a debate over how the government should oversee federally ...

Plant‐pathogenic fungi rely on finely tuned cellular processes to invade host tissues and sustain infection. This study uncovers a previously unknown mechanism that links mitochondrial quality control ...