The totality of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism forms its natural microbiome. The ...

A new study sheds light on one of the great enigmas of microbiology: why only certain strains of common bacteria become ...

The manure of farmyard animals such as pigs is a major source of antibiotic-resistance genes, which can pose a risk to human ...

Lt. Col. M. Kelly Hourihan, director of the division’s Special Pathogens Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, said the project successfully demonstrated the value of next-generation sequencing ...

A new study demonstrates that handheld nanopore sequencers can rapidly identify eye infection pathogens using only a ...

Chinese researcher accused of smuggling dangerous biological pathogen into U.S. appears in court A Chinese national accused of smuggling a "potential agroterrorism weapon" via a noxious fungus ...

Two Chinese citizens are accused of smuggling into the U.S. a fungus that causes Fusarium head blight in wheat and other grains, apparently to conduct unauthorized research at the University […] ...

A new study by the Genomics and Microbial Evolution Group at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) together with the ...

A pioneering new study published in Nature Microbiology, led by J. Oriol Sunyer, professor of immunology and pathobiology at ...

(NewsNation) — A detention hearing was postponed on Thursday for Yunqing Jian, a Chinese scientist who was caught smuggling a pathogen into the U.S. last year.