diseases

Ticks can carry more than a dozen different disease-causing agents, including toxins, allergens, bacteria, parasites and viruses. Patrick Pleul/dpa/picture alliance/Getty…

Key Takeaways Pests cause visible damage like chewed grass and soil disruption, while diseases show up as discolored or fuzzy…

Climate change could make the UK vulnerable to insect-transmitted tropical diseases that were previously only found in hot countries, scientists…

People participate in a candlelight vigil in front of the main offices of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta…

Fibroblasts are specialised connective tissue cells that play a key role in wound healing and tissue regeneration. The recent scientific…

Researchers are zeroing in on the Achilles’ heel of pathogens that cause Chagas disease, sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis. The efforts…

Viruses are known to use the genetic machinery of the human cells they invade to make copies of themselves. As…

Reduced levels of a critical protein are linked to devastating brain diseases like Alzheimer’s, frontotemporal dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…

A research facility within the US National Institutes of Health that is tasked with studying Ebola and other deadly infectious…

In recent years, cell therapies have developed alongside chemotherapy and immunotherapy to become a new pillar in the treatment of…