Medical schools must make microbiology a prerequisite — to prepare students not just for school but for practicing medicine.

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University of Saskatchewan transforms beef cattle disease diagnosis by using metagenomics to identify pathogens, bacteria, ...

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A new study maps infectious diseases across millennia and offers new insight into how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our health landscape.

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Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

“Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.” – François Rabelais ...

Despite more complex reproductive organs and fewer resources, female bodies are built to get through hardship and disease, ...

It’s not always obvious which of the multitude of species of bacteria riding around in us should be classified as germs and attacked, and which are essential workers that should be nurtured. One ...

Tridecanoic acid (C13) is a rare, odd-chain saturated fatty acid produced mainly by gut and rumen microbes, entering ...