Ten weeks after a New England man received a kidney transplant, he went into respiratory failure and shock — thanks to an extensive parasitic worm infection, according to his medical team. The ...

Childhood mortality remains a major public health challenge in low-income and middle-income countries, particularly in ...

Bacteria with high G+C content may have a harder time getting replicated in yeast. Also, Mycoplasma have a nonstandard genetic code, thus preventing expression of potentially toxic proteins in yeast.

HOPKINS CO., Ky. (WFIE) - Health officials are warning of a parasitic infection spreading in Hopkins County. The health department says they’ve discovered a Giardia outbreak, which is caused by ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that artificial intelligence (AI) combined with portable digital microscopy improves the detection of intestinal worm infections, so-called soil ...

In 2012, scientists created the first computational model of an entire cell, capturing the inner workings of the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium, which has just 525 genes 1.

As rates of C. trachomatis continue to rise and N. gonorrhoeae rates decline, [103] a predominance of chlamydial upper genital tract infection may correspond to an increase in silent PID.

The infection dynamics of the parasites of invasive species: population comparisons using genomic tools A monk parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus, in Brazil, image by Bernard Dupont (CC BY-SA 2.0) It is ...