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The US Food and Drug Administration green lights a therapy for an extreme form of multidrug resistant TB.

Quieting immune attacks against pathogens and even providing nutrients to the invaders could improve health, according to a new line of research.

A new study reveals an unexpected role for the immune cells and a previously unknown mechanism for the wasting syndrome.

Delivery guidelines should be updated to reflect these results, the authors write.

Artificially intelligent software has human-like ability to analyze host-pathogen interactions in microscopy images.

Artificially intelligent software has human-like ability to analyze host-pathogen interactions in microscopy images.

Stony coral tissue loss disease has already affected 80 percent of Florida’s coastal reef system. Now, a huge team of responders is working to slow its spread and prepare for future restoration efforts.

The parasite that causes malaria has evolved to evade many of the drugs that researchers have developed to fight the tropical disease.

Pathogens can take various routes to pass the blood brain barrier and damage cells.

Scientists may need to seriously reconsider the cast-aside hypothesis that pathogens can play a part in diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Belly fat helps fight infection, but is also a common site of metastasis.

Some beetle species may have evolved to tunnel into the ground to escape the pathogens that abound on dead and rotting animals.

Early exposure to common microbes could stop leukemia from manifesting in children.

A new study reports that immune memory may contribute to neurodegenerative diseases.

Social insects kill infected individuals for the benefit of the colony—and now a study has shown how they know who’s sick.

Researchers identify antibacterial functions of cell death in Arabidopsis when the plant is infected with Pseudomonas.  

A new technique could allow researchers to better understand bacteria-host interactions over the course of an infection.

The vaccine shows better-than-expected effectiveness against the most common and most virulent strain of influenza in children under 9 years old.