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.

American beeches have been suffering recently from a disease widespread in both Connecticut landscapes and forests.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...