As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds—ticks.

A potential world-first cure for hepatitis B, a breakthrough treatment for a rare, life-threatening childhood disease, and a ...

Infections in the brain can have serious consequences and are often fatal. The immune defense system works differently here ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute for Biological Research in Ness Ziona have used the platform ...

A usually harmless virus might be an environmental trigger or contributor to Parkinson’s disease, a new study suggests. Researchers at Northwestern Medicine developed a tool called ‘ViroFind,’ which ...

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

XFG is part of the Omicron family, of which there are now more than 1,000 known subvariants, but it’s rising rapidly in ...

A surprising new discovery suggests that a vaccine originally designed to protect older adults from shingles may also help ...

As the globe faces a rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria—making traditional antibiotics ineffective—specific viruses could offer a solution. Viruses called bacteriophages, or phages, target bacteria ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.