It would be another two years before French researchers would identify a retrovirus as the cause of AIDS, or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, according to the CDC. It would be another three years ...

Evidence is accumulating that microplastics found nearly everywhere are also invading our bodies. What should you do?

Babesiosis typically occurs in the Northeast and the Upper Midwest, but new research suggests rare cases are emerging in the ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this ...

The human body and its organs are composed of a wide variety of cell types. Although all cells contain the same genes, they ...

The unusual molecular makeup of Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease, may hold clues for understanding and treating the tick-borne disease.

Dr. Casey Means​, President Trump's nominee to serve as U.S. surgeon general, has largely focused on metabolic dysfunction in ...

Edna Bonhomme, author of "A History of the World in Six Plagues," details how pandemics are about more than viruses ...

Researchers have developed the Human Intestinal Bacteria Collection (HiBC), comprising 340 gut bacterial strains from 198 ...

Scientists believe they know what causes the treated infection to mimic chronic illness: the body ... Center for Human Immunobiology at Northwestern. He has been studying Lyme disease for more ...

Reduced levels of a critical protein are linked to devastating brain diseases like Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Surprisingly, the protein shortage ...

Researchers uncover why the body may keep reacting to a hidden threat even long after the bacteria are gone. As many as 20 ...