Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have created a portable food safety device they hope will one day be used at ...

Far too small to be seen by the human eye, viruses and bacteria are identified by being placed under the microscope by ...

Pepper, a feline owned by John Lednicky, a virologist at the University of Florida, recently discovered orthoreovirus on a dead Everglades short-tailed shrew he had caught. Orthorevirus is a viral ...

Illnesses from stealthy pathogens known as Vibrio are advancing northward along numerous coasts, potentially ruining your ...

On a small, gently rocking research boat anchored just offshore in Chesapeake Bay, I lowered a sterile plastic bottle into ...

Since mosquitoes carry malaria, prevention has long focused on preventing mosquito bites, such as with nets, and controlling mosquito populations with insecticides and other measures. Researchers are ...

A team at Scripps Research has created a microchip that can rapidly reveal how a person's antibodies respond to viruses using only a drop of blood. This game-changing technology, called mEM, condenses ...

As part of a person's first line of defense against viruses and other microbes that cause illness and disease, a whole network of proteins and other molecules detect and respond to intruders, which ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute for Biological Research in Ness Ziona have used the platform ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...