Federal funding for Valley fever research can be hard to come by, researchers say, so the organism that causes it remains largely understudied. The illness is currently classified as an “orphan ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Stephanie Innes Mar 1, 2015 Mar 1, 2015 Updated Aug 16, 2017 Frozen but alive inside a laboratory at the University of Arizona is a potential vaccine against an insidious, incurable, sometimes ...

"It's one of those exciting papers that opens a lot of doors." Scientists unveil breakthrough drug with the potential to save ...

May 21, 2025 — How do organisms adapt to climate change? A new study reveals the complex interplay between genetic diversity and temperature tolerance ...

These differences also depend on the type of infection. Infection occurs when an organism, such as a virus or bacterium, invades the body. The infectious agent rapidly multiplies in the body’s ...

Just as ecological theory arose from natural history to draw generalized conclusions from specific observations of organisms in their environment, so microbiologists need theory to interpret the ...

Mar. 20, 2024 — Infectious diseases specialists call the medical field to be ready to deal with the impact of climate change on spreading diseases, such as malaria, Valley fever, E. coli and Lyme ...

COVID-19 cases have plateaued, but NB.1.8.1, a new Omicron variant driving a surge in China, has been detected in the U.S. Other Omicron variants still account for the majority of COVID-19 cases ...

Since the first filing, F2G has completed a phase 2b study in patients with invasive aspergillosis, scedosporiosis, lomentosporiosis, fusariosis, scopulariopsis, and coccidioidomycosis infections ...

The study of the processes by which marine organisms grow and how factors such as temperature, nutrition, microbes, predators, and hormones influence development. (Green fluorescent amphioxus photo by ...