pathogens

The Scientist spoke with Jonathan Kagan about his idea that immune cells respond to “errors” made by unsuccessful pathogens, not the pathogens themselves.

Researchers use genetic clues to track the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria from the environment to patients.

In a first, patients who hadn’t been treated with antifungals were found to carry Candida auris impervious to all three available classes of the drugs.

A contaminated ham put bacteriologist Émile Pierre-Marie van Ermengem on the path to discovering the microbe that produces botulinum toxin.

The World Health Organization–led program will promote equity in addition to facilitating access to samples, a WHO official involved in the project tells The Scientist.

The newly minted Baylor College of Medicine faculty member is working to crack the mystery of triple negative breast cancer.

While neutrophil extracellular traps help guard the body from infection, they also can contribute to a range of diseases.

Extracellular webs expelled by neutrophils trap invading pathogens, but these newly discovered structures also have ties to autoimmunity and cancer.

Researchers confirm TR4’s presence in Colombia, increasing concerns about the future of the industry.

Splashes from raindrops spend fungal spores high enough aloft to be swept away by the wind, researchers observe with high-speed photography.

A growing branch of research on how plants use exosomes to interact with their environment is opening up a new field of plant biology.

A government report finds that laboratories in the U.S. that work with select agents such as Ebola and anthrax aren’t as secure as they should be.

Meet some of the people featured in the October 2017 issue of The Scientist.

Emerging infections provide clues about how pathogens might evolve when farm animals are protected from infection.

Tracking the myxoma virus in the wild rabbit populations of Australia has yielded insight into how pathogens and their hosts evolve.

In a process known as vomocytosis, macrophages swallow pathogens whole only to spew them back out later, unharmed.