"What are sometimes called superbugs — microbes resistant to every available drug — are not merely the stuff of nightmares.

A consortium of researchers with multidisciplinary skills, coordinated by INRAE and including the CNRS, the Université ...

Plants are susceptible to a wide range of pathogens. For the common potato plant, one such threat is Pectobacterium ...

Host-pathogen interactions continue to challenge the fields of immunology and infectious disease research, as pathogens deploy a range of strategies to ...

The hilum is the scar visible on the outside of the seed ... She specifically used the term “dirt” instead of “soil,” explaining that it typically contains pathogens and introduces weeds from the ...

“Saccharin breaks the walls of bacterial pathogens, causing them to distort and eventually burst, killing the bacteria.” This physical breakdown lets antibiotics enter the bacteria more easily. As a ...

Pathogen transmission can be modeled in three stages. In Stage 1, the pathogen can be transmitted only between nonhuman animals. In stage 2, the pathogen can also be transmitted to humans, but it ...

Scientists at the University of Stirling have developed a new method of monitoring the presence of pathogens in rivers polluted by wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). The number of discharges from ...

A switch of just two weeks from a traditional African diet to a Western diet causes inflammation, reduces the immune response to pathogens, and activates processes associated with lifestyle diseases.

Faculty or staff with job duties that could cause them to come into contact with blood or other potentially infectious fluids should attend this 1.5-hour class presented by Environment, Health and ...