The initiative's ultimate vision is to create "a world free from diseases"-a future where people no longer suffer from infectious diseases and cancer, and where animals and plants thrive without ...

Researchers showed that some spinach defensins can confer similar protection to citrus and potatoes -- and possibly other crops. The effects show significant progress toward recovering yield and ...

Testing in the Philippines of smuggled vegetables has found they were positive for heavy metals and Salmonella. Agriculture ...

An innovative outbreak detection program that tracks disease-causing viruses in wastewater identified the measles virus in ...

Subhash Verma, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology, and his research team at the University of Nevada, Reno ...

Soil microbiology is the scientific discipline that is concerned with the study of all biological aspects of the microorganisms (bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, parasites and protozoa ...

There are several cleaning and sanitation methods—each with their own unique capabilities. Combining methods with a plan in ...

A core genome multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme is developed for Acinetobacter pittii, a bacterial species linked to nosocomial infections, which has the potential to aid in genetic ...