Phantom agents are suspected pathogens that have been reported in scientific literature going back to the early 1900s with no real evidence they exist, according to Ioannis Tzanetakis, professor of ...

Scientists have discovered that the most widely-used class of antifungals in the world causes pathogens to self-destruct. The University of Exeter-led research could help improve ways to protect food ...

An intestinal pathogen reshapes the gut environment to fuel its own colonization and cause diseases, a multi-institutional team including researchers at Vanderbilt Health has discovered. The ...

The belief that infectious agents may cause certain chronic diseases can be traced to the mid-19th century, when cancer was studied as a possible infectious disease. This effort met with little ...

In a new study, Yale researchers identify the targets in the human body to which pathogens transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks, and other vectors bind. Their findings, they say, could help address the ...

Figure 1: An autophagosome (green) in the process of "eating" a nucleus (red) in a azole-treated cell of Z. tritici. Image provided by co-author Dr. Martin Schuster. Scientists have discovered that ...