A US-based doctor has flagged mold growth in dates, saying you must never eat them without checking the insides after ...

For a long time, scientists depended on luck to find new proteins. In 1840, for example, Friedrich Ludwig Hünefeld, a German ...

A Texas woman died from a rare brain-eating amoeba after using tap water in a sinus rinse, a CDC report says. Here's what to ...

The United States recently charged two Chinese nationals for allegedly smuggling a “dangerous biological pathogen” into the country for research purposes. Federal authorities charged that the pathogen ...

Have you seen more ticks than usual lately in Delaware? You're not alone. Here's what's up with the state's tick population ...

Back in 1676, a Dutch cloth merchant with a keen interest in microscopes, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, discovered microbes and began cataloging them. Two ...

The illness is caused by a parasite, which makes it different from many well-known tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme.

Taxpayers from Vero Beach to Stuart will be asked to pay more for the salary of 19th Judicial Circuit Medical Examiner Patricia Aronica. Worthwhile?

From leafy sea dragons to blue swimmer crabs, marine life off the coast of South Australia has been decimated by a toxic algae bloom.

A rare and fatal brain infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, the "brain-eating amoeba," claimed a woman's life after she used tap water in a nasal irrigation device. The CDC reports the 71-year-old ...

This colorized electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2024 shows avian influenza A virus (bird flu) particles, red/yellow, grown in ...