Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

Cornell researchers suggest ultrasensitive food safety tests with 'zero-detection' expectations might be wasting edible food.

GAO also examined how HHS agencies review and oversee the pathogen research they fund or conduct. It found that while HHS shares some information about high-risk research with federal stakeholders, ...

Ultra-sensitive food safety tests may drive food waste and unavailability with limited public health benefit, according to a ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive—and thrive—in human and animal tissues, even within otherwise hostile cells that are part of the ...

The Government Accountability Office is calling on HHS to increase transparency in how it assesses and mitigates risk related to high-risk pathogen research. In a report released Feb. 19, the GAO said ...

Researchers warn ultra-sensitive food safety pathogen tests may trigger unnecessary recalls and food waste despite trace level detections posing limited health risk.

Tick-borne diseases are on the rise in the northeastern US, with many ticks carrying more than one pathogen, reports a recent analysis published in Ecosphere by researchers at Cary Institute of ...