A parasite which has devastating impacts on agriculture and human health is the first pathogen to have its proteins located and mapped within its cells -- providing clues to their function and helping ...

We often tell ourselves a comforting story about the history of disease: it’s the price of civilization. For most of human ...

Heterogeneity is ubiquitous in real-world host populations, yet most theories assume homogeneity. Using a metapopulation model, we examine how host heterogeneities, such as uneven movement patterns ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

Fungal diseases can have a devastating effect on agricultural production. By some estimates, these infections account for the loss of as much as a quarter of crops globally each year. For decades, ...

The study is the first to identify a damage response pathway that is distinct from but parallel to the classical pathway triggered by pathogens. It's a dangerous world out there. From bacteria and ...

The rapid spread of animal diseases and pathogen evolution have long posed significant threats to the healthy development of ...

What do hantavirus, the Yersinia pestis bacteria, the 1918 influenzas virus, and the H5N1 virus have in common? The virus found in rodent droppings, the culprit behind the Black Death, the cause of ...

The first panoramic view of infection pathways in the human placenta has been created, which could highlight potential drug targets to develop pregnancy-safe therapies for malaria, toxoplasmosis and ...