Scientists have made 'exciting,' patient-friendly advances in developing a non-toxic bacterial therapy, BacID, to deliver cancer-fighting drugs directly into tumors. This emerging technology holds ...

Neurogeneticist Matthew DeGennaro is the first scientist to make a mutant mosquito — a game-changing tool in researching ...

The most recent project and the one Gadhave is leading is funded by a three-year, $887,000 grant from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA-AMS, will pursue research applications to develop ...

"Toxic male technique" genetically engineers male insects to produce insect-specific venom proteins in their semen.

In the U.S., an average of about 900 people a week have died of COVID-19 over the past year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The coronavirus continues to affect ...

The COVID pandemic is ongoing, but scientists are on alert for any pathogen that might lead to another global outbreak of disease ... on communicable diseases control. He is also involved in ...

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dubbed it "Disease X." National and international health experts raced to the scene. But because the rainy season made dirt roads hard to pass ...

To put a disease that's ravaging ecosystems around the world into context, biologist Roland Knapp describes it like COVID-19 — if COVID-19 had a 99 per cent mortality rate. "If we can imagine ...

If this strain of bird flu makes that switch and can start transmitting between humans, governments must act quickly to control the spread. Centres for disease control around the world have drawn ...

If this strain of bird flu makes that switch and can start transmitting between humans, governments must act quickly to control the spread. Centres for disease control around the world have drawn up ...

Since then, I think it’s fair to say that most people have been nervous about the emergence of the next big infectious disease – be that a virus, bacterium, fungus or parasite. With COVID-19 ...

The USDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration presented a united front at these briefings, calling it a “One Health” approach. In reality ...