Scientists have discovered that the most widely-used class of antifungals in the world causes pathogens to self-destruct. The University of Exeter-led research could help improve ways to protect food ...

When we think about climate change, we tend to consider its most direct effects, like severe weather and sea level increases. But some of the changes incurred by climate change introduce their own ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed the need to better understand the transmission routes of animal-spread diseases. A study published in Nature Communications demonstrates how the risk of pathogen ...

In a global study, researchers have identified that most reservoirs of rodent-borne diseases tend to live exclusively or occasionally in or near human dwellings, show large fluctuations in their ...

Figure 1: An autophagosome (green) in the process of "eating" a nucleus (red) in a azole-treated cell of Z. tritici. Image provided by co-author Dr. Martin Schuster. Scientists have discovered that ...