Thanks to a new sampling technique, scientists can now monitor whale health in a non-invasive way. While this development is ...

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

When our body is attacked by a pathogen, the pathogen has to find ways to evade our immune system and invade our cells to cause infection and illness. Reporting in Cell, researchers have now ...

Particles of plastic float in the ocean. Microplastics are able to carry pathogens from land to parts of the ocean they would normally never reach, a UC Davis study found. (Getty) Microplastics are a ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Warmer temperatures are impacting the food supply and its safety, experts warned amid an outbreak of E. coli that has struck McDonald's Quarter Pounders. Experts said pathogens—the ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

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Periodontitis is widespread and can have serious consequences for overall health. Researchers at Fraunhofer have identified a substance that selectively inhibits only those bacteria that cause ...

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 ...

Food security is of great concern as global temperatures continue to warm. The availability of food and how crops will fare as a result of climate change has long been of interest to environmental ...