A new study on airline water quality delivers a surprising warning: never wash your hands on an airplane. The research, based ...

Plants mobilize their immune defenses far earlier than scientists have believed for decades—and through a previously overlooked early signaling mechanism—according to a new study published in Nature ...

The Indore contaminated water crisis, where sewage leaked into drinking water, sickening hundreds and causing deaths, highlights the serious risks of unsafe water.

Fungi are essential to life on land. They decompose organic matter, cycle nutrients and sustain plant ecosystems. Without ...

The Trump administration is widely recommending fewer childhood immunizations, including for influenza, rotavirus and ...

Despite its role in killing dangerous bacteria, a common step in food processing is seen by some experts as a potential ...

AI can now create genome viruses in laboratories and redesign toxins to evade controls, raising biosafety alert and rise of ...

Public health researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health used computer modeling to reconstruct how ...

A National Taiwan University study reveals how intracellular bacteria co-opt mitochondrial transporters to evade immune ...

Spruce bark beetles hijack their host tree’s chemical defenses, transforming them into potent weapons against fungal threats.

Global alert map: 9.3% of the earth is an outbreak hotspot; Latin America and Oceania have high disease risk and low health ...