In an interview, Piotr Jasko explains how his team uses part of the diphtheria toxin to fuse vesicles in a controlled and gentle manner. Researchers from the SNI network have discovered a novel way to ...

It sounds a bit like something out of science fiction, but a topical vaccine that is rubbed on the skin is now closer to reality than ever before. In a new study led by Stanford University scientists, ...

At Wilkes-Barre, Pa., two days before Christmas, Daniel Holuk, 5, choked to death when a yellowish leathery membrane plugged his windpipe. Diphtheria. George Washington choked to death in much the ...

Competition and antagonism are as much a part of microbial life as ours. The evolution of secretory systems that enable some bacteria to bombard their neighbors with toxins holds an obvious advantage ...

With an effective vaccine, cases of the potentially fatal disease plummeted. But West Africa is now seeing thousands of new cases and hundreds of... It had been over 30 years since the last case of ...

An unvaccinated toddler from the far north coast of New South Wales is in intensive care after catching respiratory diphtheria (diphtheria of the throat). A six-year-old close family contact is also ...