Dr. McConnell earned a Bachelor's degree in both Psychology and Microbiology & Cell science from the University of Florida. She was part of the inaug ...

Registration is open for the 44th annual County Science and Engineering Fair. The fair is for middle and high school students ...

As production of natural gas soared, so has the fracking industry’s production of toxic and often radioactive waste.

It may seem like something you eat would be fine to put on your skin—but experts say there are better, clinically proven ...

Jade Adams wants her Knoxville wine bar to feel like a warm hug from her mother. So, that's what she named it: Mother Bar, ...

In just a decade, the drug-resistant fungal pathogen Candida auris (C. auris) has emerged as one of the most formidable threats to health care settings worldwide.

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

The editing sparked an outcry among some of the more than 37,000 members of the organization, the American Society for Microbiology ... scientific papers The ASM notes that it has not altered ...

Canned foods are often the culprit of this rare, but potentially deadly, condition. The good news is: It's treatable if caught early.

With so much H5N1 circulating in the U.S., scientists worry we are a few mutations away from a potential human pandemic.

Bird flu continues to spread to farm animals, raising concerns about whether it's safe to drink milk or eat beef, eggs, and ...

A new clinical trial from Scripps Research hopes to make significant gains in the global fight against malaria by making a drug that has been around since the 1970s last longer. Working with a ...