Humans have used plants and animals to treat and prevent diseases for most of history. Newer technology has allowed us to, in some cases, genetically modify organisms to better suit our needs and ...

Once considered obscure or opportunistic, invasive fungal infections are now surfacing with alarming frequency - and in ...

"All of us have someone in our lives that they ... you can think of would be a bad place for an infectious organism to be, ...

"It's a mystery why young organisms don't evolve stronger disease resistance because getting sick early in life can be deadly," said study co-author Emily Bruns, an assistant professor of biology at ...

Infectious diseases are disorders that are caused by organisms, usually microscopic in size ... Deaths from the infectious diseases HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis have fallen significantly in recent years, ...

Damage to the mitochondria, the 'power plants' of the cells, contributes to many diseases. Researchers now describe how cells with defective mitochondria activate a special recycling system to ...

Researchers have identified a new way to fight infections like Lyme disease and syphilis by disrupting the bacteria's "motor," preventing it from spreading through the body.

for scientists to use when they look at populations of organisms in an attempt to find genetic changes that predispose individuals to certain traits, including disease. On average, SNPs are found ...

non-communicable, which are not transferred between people or other organisms communicable ... chance of developing another disease. Some risk factors have been proven to cause a disease.

Pulmonary sarcoidosis is a lung disease characterized by granulomas-tiny clumps of immune cells that form in response to ...

A new set of artificial intelligence models could make protein sequencing even more powerful for better understanding cell biology and diseases.