Early in 2025, scientists discovered a promising new antibiotic in a soil sample from a lab technician's backyard. The ...

Periodontitis is widespread and can have serious consequences for overall health. Researchers at Fraunhofer have identified a ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet, researchers presented comprehensive global estimates of the mortality burden related to 33 species or genera of bacterial pathogenic organisms causing 11 ...

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

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Pathogenicity is the potential capacity of certain species of microbes to cause an infectious process. It is characterised by ...

Select gut bacteria protect mice against post-influenza virus secondary bacterial pneumonia, according to a study published ...

Phylogenies show how organisms are related to each other by placing them in an ordered map of them and their relatives. These can be done on a large scale, such as the tree of life, or on a smaller ...

Endemic and emerging infectious diseases caused by microbial pathogens pose a considerable threat to human and animal health worldwide 1,2,3,4,5. At the molecular level, pathogen evolution, ...

Food poisoning is never a fun experience. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll bite into something bad and realize soon enough ...