The past few decades have seen the emergence of several diseases with drastic public health and economic consequences. Understanding routes of pathogen emergence and transmission is critical to ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Lyme disease is the most common illness in the United States that is transmitted by a vector, which are ticks in this case. Although ...

We share our world, and our bodies with microbes. Researchers have been learning a lot more about how specific species of gut microbes affect various aspects of our health and well-being. New work has ...

Fungal diseases in the human population are on the rise, so it is important for health authorities to understand where these pathogens come from. A new study has searched for fungi in the lung tissues ...

Fungal diseases in the human population are on the rise, so it is important for health authorities to understand where these pathogens come from. A new study has searched for fungi in the lung tissues ...

A new study sheds light on one of the great enigmas of microbiology: why only certain strains of common bacteria become pandemic pathogens. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

When pathogens invade the body, the immune system must react immediately to prevent or contain an infection. However, it is not fully understood how our defense cells stay vigilant when there are no ...

A reader of ERR's Novaator science portal noticed diseased ash and elm trees in their home yard and asked what was causing it ...