GAO also examined how HHS agencies review and oversee the pathogen research they fund or conduct. It found that while HHS shares some information about high-risk research with federal stakeholders, ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of sparking human epidemics and pandemics. Using a ...

A new way to map the spread and evolution of pathogens, and their responses to vaccines and antibiotics, will provide key insights to help predict and prevent future outbreaks. The approach combines a ...

Scientists have made a distressing discovery on how global warming will affect known infectious diseases. Climate hazards are expected to aggravate 58% of all known human pathogens, according to a ...

A UCF research team has engineered tissue with human cells that mosquitoes love to bite and feed upon - with the goal of helping fight deadly diseases transmitted by the biting insects. A ...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought the term "Polymerase Chain Reaction testing" into the mainstream. The PCR method is a type of ...