Marburg isn’t a household name like Ebola, but University of Minnesota researchers created a method for comparison and showed it 300 times more efficient at infecting human cells.

More ticks in the U.S. Northeast now carry multiple diseases, raising risks as Lyme and babesiosis co-infections climb.

Controlling the spread of many infections, including measles, depends on trust in public health, which is eroding.

In a new study published in Nature, University of Minnesota researchers found that the Marburg virus, one of the world's deadliest pathogens with an average 73% fatality rate, is unusually efficient ...

For Shaw, the fight against drug-resistant bacteria is personal. Growing up in England, he developed a chronic staph infection after hip surgery as a teenager. The infection, caused by ...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia (U.K.) have uncovered a hidden link between gut health and the immune system—all thanks to a tiny island bird. Researchers studied the Seychelles warbler, a ...

Dr Salah Mansour and Dr Ali Roghanian Children and young people diagnosed with aggressive cancers could benefit from a pioneering project supported by ...

Measles made headlines last year and it's not stopping so far in 2026. It's one of five infectious diseases that doctors say we should keep an eye on this year. Emerging and re-emerging infectious ...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects an estimated 50 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, and remains a ...

Scripps Research scientists reengineer critical proteins on the surface of HCV, paving the way for a new vaccine design.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—An article by Mississippi State Professor of Anthropology Molly Zuckerman and her graduate student Lydia Bailey has been published in “Science,” one of the foremost scientific ...

Dementia is a term used to describe memory loss, impaired reasoning, difficulties communicating and other mental impairments that can be caused by Alzheimer's disease, other neurodegenerative disease, ...