A new proof-of-concept study explored the feasibility of tracking the evolution of superbug infections in real time to help save infected patients.

Thanks to lab-grown miniature intestines, researchers at Uppsala University have successfully mapped how aggressive Shigella bacteria infect the human gut. The study opens the door to using cultured ...

A new study suggests that bedbugs were the first urban pest, and their population thrived in that environment. For the ...

Numerous insects, including mites, lice, fleas, ticks, and bed bugs, can inhabit or visit the human body. These creatures ...

“There were bed bugs living in the caves with these humans, and when they moved out they took a subset of the population with them so there’s less genetic diversity in that human-associated ...

For thousands of years, bed bugs have enjoyed living off their human hosts, and it may have all started when the bugs spread from bats to our Neanderthal ancestors. According to a new study published ...

“There were bed bugs living in the caves with these humans, and when they moved out they took a subset of the population with them so there’s less genetic diversity in that human-associated ...

"There were bed bugs living in the caves with these humans, and when they moved out they took a subset of the population with them so there's less genetic diversity in that human-associated lineage." ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” according to a new study.