Bats in the tropics of the Americas are a reservoir for morbilliviruses—a genus of RNA viruses that includes the human ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

To get around this immune counterattack, the parasite shuts off that var gene and expresses a different one from its collection, thereby avoiding detection and prolonging the infection.

Guilty Gear Strive’s source code got leaked as a result of a hack, with new data about the game getting leaked online in one of the most egregious leaks in fighting game history. Not only did ...

When fruit flies are infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, their sex lives—and ability to reproduce—change dramatically. Arizona State University scientist Timothy Karr decided to find out why.

The incidence of infection by Mycobacterium abscessus, is increasing in patients with cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and other chronic pulmonary diseases ...

The engineered molecule is based on the IgM version of an immunoglobulin antibody, the generic first line of antibody defense against infection—but with an added structural feature that attaches ...

Regulatory T-cells, or Treg cells, regulate the body's immune response to cancer and acute inflammation from infection or tissue injury. In cancer, Tregs suppress anti-tumor immune responses and ...

Covering stents with hairlike structures called cilia may help keep the implanted medical tubes clean, preventing infection, researchers report April 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

"This is a successful drug discovery program delivering second-generation rifamycins with improved efficacy specifically against mycobacterial infections," write the authors. "The development ...