Cynthia Wallentine

After California college student Luis Ortiz blacked out and was taken to the hospital in 2015, doctors were startled to disco ...

A gold-medal winning entry into the iGEM synthetic biology competition could change the way we look at Esherichia coli, the b ...

Specialized cells in the lining of the gut may provide a key to preventing an infectious brain disease caused by misfolded pr ...

You might feel the bite, you might not, but an infected mosquito has injected you with a parasite named Plasmodium falciparum ...

Since the 1960s, bacteria have been hopping a ride into space on space vehicles and astronauts, and have been cultivated with ...

Using mathematical modeling, researchers suggest weather and warming created the "perfect storm" that drove the Zika outbreak ...

When Kaci Hickox, a Doctors Without Borders nurse, returned to New Jersey from working with Ebola patients in West Africa in ...

New weapons are needed to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Instead of drugs, scientists have discovered in an animal stu ...

You just sat down, coffee in hand, and the day is ready to start. Now that you have taken a few sips, let me pose a question: ...

With the height of the flu season ahead, there are some good reasons to keep a flu vaccination in mind.In the United States, ...