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.

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 ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Back in May, the White House issued an executive order to strengthen biological research safety and quickly drew the attention of scientists and the biosafety community. The push ...

When a high containment laboratory handling lethal pathogens stumbles, even briefly, it exposes how much of the country’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals has launched the Special Pathogens Biopreparedness Map, a tool designed to help ...

Researchers used drones to sample whale blow and discovered cetacean morbillivirus in Arctic whales for the first time.