infectious disease

High-throughput technologies help researchers detect and monitor microbes in wastewater for source tracking and early interventions.

Researchers need a comprehensive toolbox for infectious disease research as they race against the next pandemic.

Learn how nanopore sequencing improves the monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks.

Humanity’s microscopic foes may be to blame for the ABO polymorphism.

Josephine Thinwa shares her journey to becoming a physician scientist and how this led her to investigate the role of a neurologically important kinase in virus-induced autophagy.

In Salmonella, two seemingly similar antibiotic survival strategies result from very different molecular mechanisms.

Researchers use nanopore sequencing to advance microbiology and infectious disease research.

Lateral flow tests for COVID-19 can be very accurate and specific when used as directed, but introducing acidic fluids can cause the tests’ detecting antibodies to clump, which may read as a positive result.

Leishmania parasites often cause puzzlingly painless lesions. Scientists are beginning to dig into the mechanisms underlying this pain-blocking effect.

To enter the nucleus, the HIV-1 virus acts like a transport receptor, which presents new targets for antiviral therapies.

Discover the benefits of VHH antibody-based therapies.

Bats stay healthy while hosting some of the world’s deadliest viruses. Scientists are just beginning to understand how.

Genetic engineering pioneer Kevin Esvelt’s work highlights biotechnology’s immense potential for good—but also for catastrophe.

Timely modulation of a common signaling pathway can preserve influenza memory in lung T cells.

A host lipid-modifying enzyme plays a key role in HIV envelope formation, viral maturation, and infectivity. 

By monitoring disease biomarkers within wastewater, researchers gain insight into disease prevalence within communities.

Learn how the latest research into viral and bacterial pathogens advances the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. 

Two autophagy genes work together to stop Mycobacterium tuberculosis dead in its tracks.

Scientists developed a novel nanotechnology that simultaneously detects multiple viruses from patient samples in less than an hour.