A bacterial cell settles onto a nondescript surface. It is plump, healthy and functioning as it should. Nothing appears amiss ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Purdue University researchers have developed a device for more conveniently detecting pathogens in health care settings, on ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have developed a new diagnostic platform for identifying microbial infections in as ...

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 ...

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 ...