Respiratory infections represent a significant burden across veterinary medicine, impacting companion animals, livestock, poultry, and wildlife species.

Caenorhabditis elegans has emerged as a robust model for dissecting the fundamental mechanisms of innate immunity and host–pathogen interactions. Despite lacking an adaptive immune system, C. elegans ...

The evolution of pathogens has received attention in a wide range of scientific fields, such as epidemiology, demography, and evolutionary ecology. Understanding pathogen evolution is particularly ...

IFF (NYSE: IFF) — a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, health and biosciences — announced the recipients ...

Bacteria use multiple defense mechanisms to survive in the host body. Shigella bacteria that cause colitis disable multiple ...

Collaborating researchers have made a breakthrough discovery regarding the intricate defense systems of bacteriophages (phages)—viruses that can specifically target harmful bacteria without harming ...

Chelsie E. Armbruster, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology, recently received $3.75 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how polymicrobial communities form ...

Scientists have discovered how one of the world's most destructive plant diseases manages to slip past crops' defenses—a ...