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

We often tell ourselves a comforting story about the history of disease: it’s the price of civilization. For most of human ...

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 ...

Back in May, the White House issued an executive order to strengthen biological research safety and quickly drew the attention of scientists and the biosafety community. The push ...

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

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

Cleaning and disinfection priorities in healthcare often focus on surfaces. And yet, many life-threatening pathogens are spread through the air requiring different protocols, equipment and ...

Plant pathogens, particularly those from the genera Dickeya and Pectobacterium, are the primary causal agents of soft rot diseases, which affect a wide range of economically important crops. These ...

American beeches have been suffering recently from a disease widespread in both Connecticut landscapes and forests.

When a high containment laboratory handling lethal pathogens stumbles, even briefly, it exposes how much of the country’s ...