A new study by LMU and Helmholtz Munich shows how pathogens control changes in their cell surface to evade the immune system.

Bioengineering professor and The Grainger College of Engineering's Dean, Rashid Bashir, led a team of researchers in a ...

A CDC program tests wastewater from airplanes, looking for pathogens that may have hitched a ride with passengers on long-haul international flights.

Molecular detection technologies help scientists rapidly and reliably find and address ever-evolving pathogens with optimal accuracy and sensitivity.

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the pathogen, thus marking it as an intruder and triggering an immune response. For ...

A study today in JAMA Network Open suggests the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with increased respiratory pathogen testing ...

An American biochemist whose research has helped scientists make inroads on treating coronavirus and HIV has won this year’s ...

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a CRISPR-based diagnostic tool capable of detecting ...