When our body is attacked by a pathogen, the pathogen has to find ways to evade our immune system and invade our cells to cause infection and illness. Reporting in Cell, researchers have now ...

Pathogens face numerous microbial challenges during invasion and persisting in hosts. In plants, fungal root pathogens are resisted by rhizosphere bacteria and root endophytic bacterial consortia, ...

How do pathogens invade the lungs? Using human lung microtissues, a team at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has uncovered the strategy used by a dangerous pathogen. The bacterium targets ...

The evolution of pathogens has received attention in a wide range of scientific fields, such as epidemiology, demography, and evolutionary ecology. Understanding pathogen evolution is particularly ...

Pathogens exposed to simulated space conditions during a study triggered a weaker response from human immune cells.

The mission will be carried out by US startup Katalyst Space Technologies, which won the Nasa contract last September. Its ...

How does your immune system decide between fighting invading pathogens now or preparing to fight them in the future? Turns out, it can change its mind. Every person has 10 million to 100 million ...

In the United States, COVID-19, pandemic H1N1 flu, and West Nile were most costly in terms of health and related expenses.

Intestinal infectious diseases (IIDs) are a group of diseases transmitted through the digestive tract caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites and other pathogens, with fever and diarrhoea as the main ...

The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus, as seen under an optical microscope. It's listed as a critical priority on the WHO's new report of most harmful fungal pathogens. BSIP / Education Images / Universal ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. It all started when Christopher Mason’s 3-year-old daughter licked a subway pole. Like any parent, he was horrified, but also keenly curious: What types ...

How do pathogens invade the lungs? Using human lung microtissues, a team has uncovered the strategy used by a dangerous pathogen. The bacterium targets specific lung cells and has developed a ...