We often tell ourselves a comforting story about the history of disease: it’s the price of civilization. For most of human ...

The Xpert GI Panel identifies pathogens directly from stool specimens collected in Cary-Blair transport media.

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from the Americas has yielded the oldest genetic evidence yet of a bacterium closely related to the ...

Scientists have discovered a new, much less invasive method for testing whales for pathogens. In the past, scientists needed ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

Plant pathogens, particularly those from the genera Dickeya and Pectobacterium, are the primary causal agents of soft rot diseases, which affect a wide range of economically important crops. These ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) Member States this week advanced their negotiations on the Pathogen Access and ...

Light is a universal stimulus that influences all living things. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks for ...

SALT LAKE CITY-Scientists at the University of Utah School of Medicine, ARUP Laboratories, and IDbyDNA, Inc., have developed ultra-fast, meta-genomics analysis software called Taxonomer that ...