A vaccine works by generating an immune response in the body against some kind of pathogen—a virus or bacteria or some other agent that causes disease. Normally when a pathogen invades the body ...

This project builds on recent work reporting tick transmission of relapsing fever spirochetes and genome sequencing of both the pathogen and tick vector. We have utilized both next generation and ...

Structure-based drug design is the design and ... as an inhibitor of the kinase Yck2 in the fungal pathogen Candida albicans. Here, they report the synthesis of GW analogs with improved ...

A team of scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered how a powerful "weapon" used by many fungal pathogens enables them ...