It has changed our view of host pathogen characteristics." Aksoy and her team also found that the genome itself, in terms of physical structure and size, looks similar to free-living bacteria.

As scientists work to uncover the characteristics of recently discovered COVID-19 variant omicron, social media posts are claiming that it represents a diminished risk to the public. "Pathogens ...

One of the students who developed the new database in Wiedmann's laboratory, Michael Chung '02, began by assembling the pathogen characteristics that the database would need.

A new animation aims to shed light on the scientific process undertaken when tackling a previously unseen pathogen. Tackling a previously unseen pathogen – like the one that causes COVID-19 ...

The Task Force’s scope included (1) research on pathogens known to be capable of causing a pandemic that under current conditions (e.g., low population immunity) could result in extensive spread ...

Selection criteria included analytical feasibility, relevance to the Olympics, pathogen characteristics, and their value in informing public health policies.

They were chosen based on three inclusion criteria: analytical feasibility, relevance with regards to the 2024 Paris Games and pathogen characteristics, and their value for informing public health ...

Now Niederweis and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham describe the mechanism of secretion and trafficking of that toxin, TNT, which is the major cytotoxicity factor for the pathogen ...