Researchers have successfully employed an algorithm to identify potential mutations which increase disease risk in the noncoding regions our DNA, which make up the vast majority of the human genome.

Here's what tuberculosis is, how it's transmitted and how you can expect to have it treated if it affects you or someone you ...

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis—a disease caused by parasitic worms and ...

past studies. Suffice to say, though, it is very clear that, in general, foodborne disease remains a very common and important problem in the United States, and the pathogens described in the ...

When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted to infect a particular animal species, it may eventually evolve the ability to infect a new species, such as humans ...

Several studies have now suggested that a range of neurodegenerative diseases — including multiple ... Whereas reactivated VZV causes shingles, most other awakened herpesviruses are either ...

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. This government agency supports research on the causes, prevention, and treatment of cardiovascular, lung, and blood diseases.

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of ...