Texas A&M AgriLife researchers track foodborne pathogens in produce and meat to improve food safety and protect consumers.

A bacterial cell settles onto a nondescript surface. It is plump, healthy and functioning as it should. Nothing appears amiss ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Warmer temperatures are impacting the food supply and its safety, experts warned amid an outbreak of E. coli that has struck McDonald's Quarter Pounders. Experts said pathogens—the ...

When our body is attacked by a pathogen, the pathogen has to find ways to evade our immune system and invade our cells to cause infection and illness. Reporting in Cell, researchers have now ...

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Your immune system is your body’s built-in defense network, working nonstop to protect you from bacteria, viruses, and other ...

Safety experts share their biggest concerns. From radioactive shrimp to vodka seltzer in energy drink cans, food and beverage ...

Particles of plastic float in the ocean. Microplastics are able to carry pathogens from land to parts of the ocean they would normally never reach, a UC Davis study found. (Getty) Microplastics are a ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Oct. 30, 2022. The original video can be viewed here. In January, Uganda declared an end to the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus that alarmed ...

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 ...

Purdue University researchers have developed a device for more conveniently detecting pathogens in health care settings, on ...

Researchers used drones to sample whale blow and discovered cetacean morbillivirus in Arctic whales for the first time.