Viruses and bacteria can be pathogens, but there are also other types of pathogens. Every single living thing, even bacteria themselves, can get infected with a pathogen. The world is full of ...

A research team at the University of Münster has investigated for the first time how the confrontation of bacteria with hosts ...

Often I've asked scientists, "What keeps you up at night? What types of pathogens could cause a horrible pandemic?" Every time, I've heard one type of pathogen, over and over again: viruses.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. There are four main types of pathogen.

White blood cells circulate in the blood and lymphatic vessels, looking for pathogens. When they find one, they begin to multiply and send signals to other cell types to do the same. The lymphatic ...

A genomic test developed at UC San Francisco to rapidly detect almost any kind of pathogen—virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite—has proved successful after a decade of use. The test has the ...

The World Health Organization is opening up the definition of airborne pathogens – such as Covid-19, influenza and measles – to include when respiratory droplets spread through the air and ...

The individual who allegedly brought the fungus into the U.S. wanted to clone the pathogen at a lab at the University of Michigan.

as well as the type of pathogen causing the infection and the pathogenicity of the infection. The plant immune system, however, has been repeatedly proven to require an antibody-mediated response ...

It uses a powerful genomic sequencing technique, called metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS). Rather than looking for one type of pathogen at a time, mNGS analyzes all the nucleic acids, RNA ...

The dye causes the unwinding process to give off fluorescent light, creating a melting curve—the unique signature for each type of pathogen. Those signatures are analyzed by a machine learning ...