A healthy chickpea plant (a116, left) compared to an infected plant (a115, right) Dr. Björn Krenz, head of the Plant Virus Department at t ...

Pathogens are disease-causing viruses, bacteria, fungi or protists, which can infect animals and plants. Humans have an immune system, which can defend them from pathogens. In this video ...

Pathogens are disease-causing viruses, bacteria, fungi or protists, which can infect animals and plants. Humans have an immune system, which can defend them from pathogens. In this video ...

4 This conflicting evidence is partly attributed to the sheer complexity of the intestinal microbiota, which is composed of trillions of diverse micro-organisms, including bacteria, archaea, protists ...

Around the world, pathogens and parasites are responding to the changes in unexpected ways, fueling the rise of pandemics and the extinction of countless plant and animal species. But all is not lost.

1 “The biogeography of this pathogen specifically is really important because there keep being new outbreaks which have led to epidemic situations all over the world,” said study coauthor Alexandra ...

However, war appears to have accelerated the spread of multi-resistant pathogens in Ukraine. Clinics treating war injuries have registered a sharp increase of AMR cases. More than 80% of all ...

It was quite the journey for such tiny froglets: traveling thousands of miles from the forests of southern Chile to London, carried and brooded inside their fathers' vocal sacs for safety. In the ...

There are an estimated 10 31 viruses on Earth. That is to say: there may be a hundred million times more viruses on Earth than there are stars in the universe. The majority of these viruses infect ...

The virus, called highly pathogenic H5N9, is a type of avian influenza, otherwise known as "bird flu." This is not the same type of bird flu that's already been spreading on dairy cow and poultry ...