This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...

Bacteria that cause intestinal infections typically avoid a stinky chemical - one that can kill them at high enough concentrations - inside human intestines, but they may actually swim toward it when ...

Scientists from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute of Biological Research say their vaccine uses lipid ...

Scientists have identified more than 30 different pathogens that they fear could cause the next big pandemic in humans. Skip to main content. Scientific American. August 6, 2024. 4 min read.

Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

As climate change brings pathogens into new environments, one of the world’s southernmost population of polar bears — and the animals they hunt — are encountering more than they used to.

In the lab, FISH detected seven species of bacteria that commonly infect humans – Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus mirabilis, Bacillus subtilis, Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli ...

Ultimately, understanding how different pathogens interact inside a host may be key to designing better therapies and public health strategies in a world where coinfections are the norm, not the ...

The Black Death plague, bird flu and mpox are among 24 threats that have been added to an influential watchlist of the pathogens that could trigger the next pandemic. In the first update since ...