This article was originally featured on Undark. It all started when Christopher Mason’s 3-year-old daughter licked a subway pole. Like any parent, he was horrified, but also keenly curious: What types ...

A comprehensive overview of biosolids management, including federal regulations under the Clean Water Act, state laws like Washington's RCW, and the different classes of ...

As antibiotic resistance accelerates, ESKAPE pathogens reveal how hospital superbugs survive treatment, spread across ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive — and thrive — in human and animal tissues, even within otherwise hostile cells that are part of the ...

Co-evolution between host and pathogen is, in principle, a powerful determinant of the biology and genetics of infection and disease. Yet co-evolution has proven difficult to demonstrate rigorously in ...

Critical- and high-priority pathogens in the food chain represent a persistent and evolving threat to global public health. These microorganisms are ...

How do pathogens invade the lungs? Using human lung microtissues, a team has uncovered the strategy used by a dangerous pathogen. The bacterium targets specific lung cells and has developed a ...

An intestinal pathogen reshapes the gut environment to fuel its own colonization and cause diseases, a multi-institutional ...

Activists want it banned. The US government may soon further restrict it. And politicians won’t stop talking about it. So-called “gain-of-function” pathogen research has faced growing scrutiny ever ...

NEW YORK, NY – February 28, 2024 – A new report was released by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Independent Task Force on Research with Pandemic Risks that studied the benefits and risks of a ...