Researchers have been able to reconstruct the genome sequence of an outbreak strain of Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) using metagenomics (the direct sequencing of DNA extracted from ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, at the American Society for Microbiology Conference on Biodefense and Emerging Diseases, scientists from Abbott Molecular presented data showing the ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Lyme disease, once largely a problem for Long Island and the Lower Hudson Valley, continues its march northward and westward, according to state Department of Health Data. An ...

THE term mycoplasma was practically unheard of only a decade ago, but it is now recognized as the official name of a group of organisms of considerable importance as the cause of serious infections, ...

Social media users have shared a bar chart comparing disease death rates that suggests the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic has been greatly exaggerated. The graph, however, lacks the ...

Researchers demonstrate today that 70 per cent of protein-coding human genes are related to genes found in the zebrafish and that 84 per cent of genes known to be associated with human disease have a ...