The New York City Health Department had confirmed 23 cases and 17 hospitalizations associated with a respiratory infection.

Frozen yogurt has come to be a much-loved dessert across the world, but are the gut-friendly probiotics in yogurt preserved ...

What if the answer to the world's methane problem was microscopic bugs on trees and in soils? Scientists are taking to the ...

For decades, cancer has been thought of as a purely human disease—rogue cells multiplying out of control, with no room for ...

Student loan borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, have only weeks to leave the program.

A Legionnaires’ disease cluster in New York City has sickened more than 20 people in two Upper East Side neighborhoods.

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

Deep oceans contain microbes with yet-to-be-discovered properties that could drive future innovations in biotechnology.

Researchers discovered an “Achilles’ heel” shared by E. coli, Shigella, and other diarrhea-causing bacteria: enzymes they use to breach the gut’s protective mucus layer. By targeting this common ...

The New World screwworm, which was found in the United States in June for the first time in decades, often chooses livestock ...

From mosquitoes to bed bugs, parasites have always stuck close to humanity, and they continue to shape our lives to this day, ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...