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

The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its updated Bacterial Priority Pathogens List (BPPL) 2024, featuring 15 families of antibiotic-resistant bacteria grouped into critical, high and ...

Non-immune cells play a crucial and often underappreciated role in host defense against invading pathogens. Beyond serving as passive physical barriers, ...

Researchers are unlocking the mystery of how bacteria harness viruses to wipe out the competition. The answers could help spur the development of alternatives to antibiotics. Bacteriophages, viruses ...

COVID-19 took the world by storm in early 2020, being declared a pandemic in March of that year. While it was the most recent emerging infectious disease, experts anticipate it won’t be the last. Well ...

Joseph Rotblat, a physicist who quit the Manhattan Project and later helped establish the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, with which he shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, wrote ...

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