As the deadly virus grabs headlines, a professor shared his thoughts.

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

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

Pioneering biostatistician and infectious disease expert Dr. Elizabeth Halloran recently transitioned to emerita after a ...

Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led ...

University of British Columbia researchers have engineered gut bacteria that dim their fluorescent glow in the presence of ...

In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...

As the Trump administration erodes U.S. infrastructure supporting infectious disease vaccines, mRNA heavyweight Moderna plans ...

Common gut bacteria use protein delivery systems to interact directly with human cells, reshaping how scientists view the microbiome.

Hippie college town Berkeley is sounding the alarm over a frightening outbreak of leptospirosis near a homeless encampment in ...

FOR many Brits, tuberculosis (TB) feels like a disease that died out with the Victorian slums. It’s remembered as the illness that killed famous writers like Emily Brontë, who wrote Wuthering ...