Purdue University researchers found that a subset of epidermal cells in plant leaves serves as early responders to chemical ...

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Project Lead The Way (PLTW) announced today the release of its new learning experience on Roblox (NYSE: RBLX), Pathogen Patrol™. This is the first PLTW-designed ...

It's late in the day on a muggy spring afternoon in northern Belize. A couple dozen researchers enter the Lamanai Archaeological Reserve on foot. Their objective is to catch as many different kinds of ...

Antibacterial resistance is responsible for nearly 1.3 million deaths globally each year; these numbers are projected to rapidly increase to nearly 10 million annually by 2050. As the growing threat ...

Machine learning (ML) encompasses statistical methods that learn to identify patterns in complex datasets. Here, I review application areas in plant–pathogen interactions that have recently benefited ...

As long as humans have been around, there have been pathogens to make us sick. Some have achieved infamy in human history—the bubonic plague, for example, or smallpox—and with modern technologies, ...

Conjunctivitis, often called pink eye, has long been associated with certain telltale signs and common causes. However, a ...

Ancient DNA extracted from the teeth of humans who lived long ago is yielding new information about pathogens past and present. In one of the latest studies, researchers uncovered and sequenced ...

Agriculture has been around for about 10,000 years, so it’s not often that scientists are called on to conduct research on a new crop. However, when the 2018 farm bill reversed a 50-year-old federal ...

Everyone knows rats, bats, mold and mosquitoes can make people sick, but a new study out this week concludes such pathogens and hundreds more are made worse by the warming world. A group of University ...