A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

Dolphins, whales and seals are highly social animals. Many live in groups, form long-term relationships, and repeatedly ...

Infectious diseases are illnesses caused by pathogenic microorganisms—including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites—that invade a host, replicate, and ...

The World Health Organization reported two cases of a rare virus in an eastern Indian state on Thursday.

A University of California, Riverside team of scientists has found that Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite affecting up to ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease characterized by accumulation of beta-amyloid in extracellular plaques and tau protein in intracellular neurofibrillary tangles ...

Walter Dowdle, a renowned microbiologist, virologist, and public health leader who worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and WHO, and made significant contributions to ...

Rare diseases, though individually uncommon, collectively affect millions worldwide. Despite major advances in genome sequencing and interpretation of genomic data on affected individuals, for many ...

Parasite-infected insects are creeping over the border into Texas from Mexico in surging numbers. ‘Kissing bugs,’ or triatomine insects, collected at the southern border near El Paso, Texas, are ...

Flu, rubella, and Mpox top the list of diseases that medics are most concerned about heading into 2026. Britain is currently dealing with a enormous "super flu" outbreak, which has seen large numbers ...

A breakthrough study from Keck Medicine of USC may have found a powerful new triple therapy for glioblastoma, one of the deadliest brain cancers. By combining Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields), which ...