But some worker ants appear to have a workaround for that. When exposed to a pathogen, black garden ants (Lasius niger) tinkered with their nest layout in ways that could slow the spread of ...

In the third act of Romulus, the black pathogen—better known as the black goo among the fandom—from the 2012 prequel returns. Considering that the prequel never really fully explained the ...

Karius has addressed these hurdles to develop a commercial test that allows rapid, accurate detection of more than 1,000 pathogens from a standard blood draw. The Karius Test has broad ...

The work is published in the journal Horticulture Research. The ongoing battle between plants and pathogens is shaped by millions of years of co-evolution. While plants have developed complex ...

Without immediate action, humanity will potentially face further escalation in resistance in fungal disease, a group of ...

Bloodborne pathogens are microorganisms such as viruses or bacteria that are carried in blood and can cause disease in people. There are many different bloodborne pathogens including Hepatitis C, ...

Antibiotics are the linchpin of modern medicine: without them, anyone with open wounds or needing to undergo surgery would be at constant risk of dangerous infections. Yet we continue to face a ...

A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a public workshop to explore the use of pathogen genomics and metagenomics data in the U.S. public ...

By: Sarah E. Bowden (Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia) & John M. Drake (Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia) © 2013 Nature Education Depending ...

A hefty microscope, a bundle of bed nets and an ice-box crammed with vaccines: it’s not the kit you’d usually pack for a two hour hike into a mountainous rainforest. But the intrepid health workers ...

Wastewater is any water that has been adversely affected in quality by anthropogenic influence and comprises liquid waste discharged by domestic residences, commercial properties, industry, and/or ...

The RIT Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) Department has developed a Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control Program to ensure the protection of faculty, staff, students, and visitors who put ...