Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease, meaning it can spread from animals to people, so when a companion animal becomes ill, it ...

In a new study, Northwestern University neurobiologists discovered that gut bacteria and the nose work together to shape ...

Scientists at Houston Methodist Research Institute have discovered that a fast-rising strep bacterium comes in more forms ...

The program provides funds to support the career trajectories of early- to mid-career faculty and their graduate students.

Scientists are storing backup copies of the bacteria, viruses, archaea, protists, and fungi that keep our planet healthy ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a growing threat to human, animal, and environmental health, necessitating integrated surveillance systems to effectively address this challenge. Globally, many ...

In South Africa, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and connected river systems could serve as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance, raising fresh concerns about how antimicrobial resistance moves ...

The steel industry in Pittsburgh, despite bringing economic benefits to the city in its prime, has left lasting negative effects on our environment. As ...

Unlike bacteria or yeast, moss can produce large polypeptides of human collagen along with the post-translational modifications that make it stable and bioactive.

A team has uncovered how a common bacterial pathogen uses a single protein to quietly undermine the human immune system, by both shutting down key warning signals and blocking the cell’s ability to ...

Brian Stevenson, Ph.D., a professor in the College of Medicine’s Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular ...

Hygiene in everyday items that touch the body—such as clothing, masks, and toothbrushes—is critically important. The underlying principle of how graphene selectively eliminates only bacteria has now ...