Scientists have identified a new class of compounds capable of partially clearing the tropical parasite that causes Chagas ...

Bugs found in 29 states, primarily Florida and Texas, may be invading homes and spreading a deadly parasite responsible for a dangerous, little-known disease.

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

New landmark research has successfully mapped 37,000 years of infectious disease across ancient human populations.