Plants are a rich and renewable source of compounds used in medicines, food ingredients, and cosmetics. Since growing an ...

A debilitating hoof disease affecting elk herds across the Pacific Northwest appears to be driven not by a single pathogen ...

Antimicrobial resistance—when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs designed to kill them—is an urgent ...

WSU researchers have found that multiple bacterial groups may be working together to cause "treponeme-associated hoof disease ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

A new species of bacteria has come to light in Brazil. It’s genetically similar to two other disease-causing bacteria from the Andes, which are known to infect humans through sand fly bites. According ...

A hydrogel made from crustacean shells lets common food bacteria generate electrical signals 15 times more efficiently, opening the door to reusable living sensors for food safety.

In tight spaces that trap most microbes, one bacterium keeps moving by reconfiguring how it swims, revealing a new biological ...

A new study from Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine has found that a debilitating hoof disease ...

When administered to animals infected with multidrug‑resistant A. baumannii, the antibodies enhanced phagocytosis.