More than 270 scientists, policy-makers, funders and public health experts from around the world attended the third ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released USD 300,000 from its contingency fund for emergencies in response to a suspected viral hemorrhagic fever outbreak in southern Ethiopia. The ...

Certain serious fungal infections occur in regions of the United States with specific environments and are often tied to soil ...

The real revolution came in 2012, when researchers Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier harnessed CRISPR, a natural bacterial defense system. In bacteria, CRISPR cuts out invading viruses’ DNA ...

The botulism-linked recall of ByHeart powdered infant formula is sparking urgent debate over whether US food safety systems ...

Whether infection of cells by individual virions occurs randomly or if there is some form (s) of competition or cooperativity between individual virions remains largely unknown for most virus-cell ...

A person came down with an atypical form of pneumonia in November 2002, but it would be two months before anyone realized it ...

A man in his 40s of Middle Eastern descent, with no prior medical history, presented with severe abdominal pain that had ...