AI can now create genome viruses in laboratories and redesign toxins to evade controls, raising biosafety alert and rise of ...

For decades, humans have relied on antibiotics to eliminate bacterial infections, and for a long time, those antibiotics worked reliably. But microbes, like other forms of life, can evolve to find ...

Antimicrobial resistance is an urgent and growing global crisis. Erica Hartmann, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Northwestern Engineering researchers have successfully ...

Microbiologists have long known that ancient, inactive viruses known as cryptic prophages can insert their genetic material into bacterial DNA. These genetic fragments allow bacteria to use ...

Every year, around 600 million people are struck down by foodborne illnesses. The culprits are often common yet dangerous bacteria, such as E. coli and Salmonella, that thrive in undercooked or ...

Learn how plastic pollution is creating new pathways for antibiotic resistance to become an even bigger public health threat.

Virus-built silver appears much more effective against bacteria than commercial silver. In A Nutshell Lab safety tests showed ...

Urban wild bees carry microbial signatures in their guts that reveal stresses of city living, from limited food to pollution ...

Where will the next pandemic come from? One expert says his "bet is on viruses." (Getty Images/Science Photo Libra) Nearly four years after COVID-19 emerged, public health experts already say it’s not ...

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 ...

It’s a common, straightforward idea in science: When a viral, bacterial, or parasitic pathogen sneaks its way into a host and tries to infect cells, the immune system detects its presence and mounts a ...