"It's incredible, and a big surprise, that the same infection that caused so much devastation can help create a ...

A next-generation metagenomic sequencing test developed at UCSF demonstrates its ability to rapidly and accurately diagnose a ...

Dietary zinc deficiency promotes lung infection by Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria -; a leading cause of ...

After viruses infected our evolutionary ancestors, bits of viral DNA lodged themselves into their genomes—and we still carry ...

Researchers discovered an unexpected link between zinc deficiency, the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-13 (IL-13), and Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection and demonstrated that blocking IL-13 ...

A new clinical study shows that an inhibitor of Fas ligand (FasL), also called CD95 ligand (CD95L), led to a faster recovery ...

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Capital Medical University in Beijing tested a virus treatment in eight patients with glioblastoma. The treatment ...

A dermatophyte known as Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII (TMVII) has been identified as the cause of an emerging ...

A decade-long effort has resulted in a new, rapid genomic test to diagnose rare infectious diseases in the brain and lungs.

An infectious diseases expert has raised eyebrows after she successfully treated her own breast cancer by injecting her ...

A genomic test developed by researchers to rapidly detect almost any kind of pathogen -- virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite -- has proved successful after a decade of use.