The most detailed study to date on the mechanisms by which a common type of bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, adapts to ...

With many viruses now on the rise, it can be hard to know which illness you have and how to handle it. A doctor helps you to ...

University of Oregon researchers are helping to uncover the mechanisms at work when one ingests contaminated food or water.

The claim has been swirling since Robert. F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, was tapped to lead the U.S. Department of Health ...

Bacteria have complex molecular machines that help them drive disease. Scientists can now leverage these machines to treat disease instead. We primarily work with nanobodies, although we have shown ...

Bacterial immune evasion is the process by which bacteria avoid and antagonize the bacterial host response, which is mediated by the host's immune system. Here, the authors show that vaginal ...

The team behind the study hopes their findings will deepen our understanding of how oral bacteria may contribute to diseases affecting the whole body. For years, scientists have recognized a ...

Since then, I think it's fair to say that most people have been nervous about the emergence of the next big infectious disease – be that a virus, bacterium, fungus or parasite. And then there are the ...

In 2019, OG Maco revealed to his Instagram followers that he was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating bacterial disease. “I was improperly treated for a minor rash and ended up ...

Since then, I think it’s fair to say that most people have been nervous about the emergence of the next big infectious disease – be that a virus, bacterium, fungus or parasite. With COVID-19 ...

It's that time of year, when families and friends come together to share their holiday cheer and a few circulating pathogens. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at UC San Francisco ...

But infectious disease experts are far less forgetful and have remained on their toes since the novel coronavirus was first identified in 2019, continuously looking for signs of mutations or other ...