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Animal infection
Animal infections occur when an agent invades a host animal's tissues where it replicates and releases toxins causing disease. Some animal infections, known as zoonotic diseases, can be transferred to humans.
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AUG 07, 2025Earth & The Environment
What steps can be taken to mitigate health risks to dogs from contaminated water? This is what a recent study published ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScFEB 06, 2025Plants & Animals
Everyone loves getting kisses from a dog, but how healthy is it? Could certain diseases be transferred from a dog’ ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAR 08, 2024Microbiology
Tens of thousands of people die from antibiotic resistant infections very year, and these pathogenic microbes present a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 28, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
Lyme disease occurs when someone is bitten by a deer tick that is carrying pathogenic bacteria called Borrelia burgdorfe ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 22, 2024Microbiology
Dr. Nicole Foley of Texas A&M and colleagues studied myotis bats to learn more about how their 'nightclubs' promote immu ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 20, 2024Genetics & Genomics
In DNA, retrotransposons can move around and insert themselves into other parts of genomes with a kind of copy and paste ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 19, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Chronic wasting disease, discovered in 1967, has since spread among deer, elk, moose, and other cervids to 23 US states, ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 08, 2024Microbiology
Climate change is raising temperatures around the world, and mosquitoes are on the move. As their territories expand, th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 30, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Viruses are entities that have to infect other cells in order to replicate. They may have genomes that are made of DNA o ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 29, 2024Microbiology
Our immune systems can often eliminate bacterial infections, but sometimes those bacteria are very tough and persistent, ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 25, 2024Immunology
Chemotherapy has long been the gold standard for cancer treatment since its inception in the 1950s. Chemotherapy is a tr ...Written By: Brian G. MorrealeJAN 23, 2024Space & Astronomy
As human spaceflight has advanced, so has the food that astronauts eat during their respective missions. This has evolve ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 05, 2024Microbiology
Bacterial infections have always posed problems for people, and we have found ways to treat them with antibiotics. But b ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 28, 2023Immunology
The immune system regulates homeostasis by attacking foreign bacteria, viruses, and other infections. Different immune c ...Written By: Brian G. MorrealeDEC 22, 2023Clinical & Molecular DX
When a person presents with the symptoms of a viral infection, diagnosis may not be so straightforward unless they are i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 18, 2023Genetics & Genomics
Two new studies have advanced our understanding of bacteriophages or phages, which are viruses that infect bacterial cel ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 14, 2023Microbiology
As the climate changes, mosquitoes are on the move. Humans are also starting to settle down in places that are already c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 12, 2023Microbiology
In a new study that assessed seventeen research reports from eleven countries, scientists determined that cat ownership ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 04, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
Bacterial cells are far simpler than animal cells - bacterial cells don't even have membrane-bound organelles like m ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 28, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have discovered that a very common microbe that grows in many places, including human skin, can directly caus ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 26, 2023Microbiology
Fungal infections can be very serious, and they can come out of nowhere. The first case of a Candida auris infection, fo ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 24, 2023Microbiology
Humans and most animals host a community of microbes, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses, in their gastrointestinal ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 20, 2023Microbiology
Researchers have now had several years to study thethat causes COVID-19 virus, and now we know a lot more about how it c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 15, 2023Drug Discovery & Development
"Flips the field of microbiology on its head" by revealing the compartmentalization of biochemical processes in bacteria ...Written By: Amielle Moreno
AUG 07, 2025
Earth & The Environment
What steps can be taken to mitigate health risks to dogs from contaminated water? This is what a recent study published
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 06, 2025
Plants & Animals
Everyone loves getting kisses from a dog, but how healthy is it? Could certain diseases be transferred from a dog’
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 08, 2024
Microbiology
Tens of thousands of people die from antibiotic resistant infections very year, and these pathogenic microbes present a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 28, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
Lyme disease occurs when someone is bitten by a deer tick that is carrying pathogenic bacteria called Borrelia burgdorfe
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 22, 2024
Microbiology
Dr. Nicole Foley of Texas A&M and colleagues studied myotis bats to learn more about how their 'nightclubs' promote immu
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 20, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
In DNA, retrotransposons can move around and insert themselves into other parts of genomes with a kind of copy and paste
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 19, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Chronic wasting disease, discovered in 1967, has since spread among deer, elk, moose, and other cervids to 23 US states,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 08, 2024
Microbiology
Climate change is raising temperatures around the world, and mosquitoes are on the move. As their territories expand, th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 30, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Viruses are entities that have to infect other cells in order to replicate. They may have genomes that are made of DNA o
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 29, 2024
Microbiology
Our immune systems can often eliminate bacterial infections, but sometimes those bacteria are very tough and persistent,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 25, 2024
Immunology
Chemotherapy has long been the gold standard for cancer treatment since its inception in the 1950s. Chemotherapy is a tr
...
Written By:
Brian G. Morreale
JAN 23, 2024
Space & Astronomy
As human spaceflight has advanced, so has the food that astronauts eat during their respective missions. This has evolve
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 05, 2024
Microbiology
Bacterial infections have always posed problems for people, and we have found ways to treat them with antibiotics. But b
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 28, 2023
Immunology
The immune system regulates homeostasis by attacking foreign bacteria, viruses, and other infections. Different immune c
...
Written By:
Brian G. Morreale
DEC 22, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
When a person presents with the symptoms of a viral infection, diagnosis may not be so straightforward unless they are i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 18, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
Two new studies have advanced our understanding of bacteriophages or phages, which are viruses that infect bacterial cel
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 14, 2023
Microbiology
As the climate changes, mosquitoes are on the move. Humans are also starting to settle down in places that are already c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 12, 2023
Microbiology
In a new study that assessed seventeen research reports from eleven countries, scientists determined that cat ownership
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 04, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Bacterial cells are far simpler than animal cells - bacterial cells don't even have membrane-bound organelles like m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 28, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have discovered that a very common microbe that grows in many places, including human skin, can directly caus
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 26, 2023
Microbiology
Fungal infections can be very serious, and they can come out of nowhere. The first case of a Candida auris infection, fo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 24, 2023
Microbiology
Humans and most animals host a community of microbes, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses, in their gastrointestinal
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 20, 2023
Microbiology
Researchers have now had several years to study thethat causes COVID-19 virus, and now we know a lot more about how it c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 15, 2023
Drug Discovery & Development
"Flips the field of microbiology on its head" by revealing the compartmentalization of biochemical processes in bacteria
...
Written By:
Amielle Moreno