In 2023, tuberculosis (TB) killed about 1.25 million people worldwide, more than any other infectious disease on Earth — even though it is curable. Months- or even years-long regimens of potent ...

A rare cell type in the lungs is essential to survival from the COVID-19 virus, a new study shows.

On Saturday, April 5th, trailblazers in science and technology shared their pioneering research with a packed audience at On ...

Tatiana Pinto, Associate Professor of Microbiology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, tells us about the BactiVac networking opportunity that led to a five-year, international collaboration ...

A Kobe University team was able to edit the DNA of Lactobacillus strains directly without a template from other organisms.

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections ...

Researchers hope to launch human clinical trials in their quest for a vaccine to prevent the buildup of pathological tau after demonstrating that this vaccine generated a robust immune response in ...

A recent study highlights the cost-effectiveness of combining hospital-at-home care with fecal microbiota transplantation ...

UMass Amherst researchers have discovered a new bacteria in Maine rabbit ticks linked to an infection that can be deadly for ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a live-imaging system, Phollow, that tracks individual ...

Casey Fiesler, an information science professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, learned late Friday evening that one of the three grants she had been awarded by the National Science Foundation ...

Biodegradation is an important natural process during oil spill cleanup. A new study revealed that using spill treating agents does not negatively impact naturally occurring biodegradation.