It's all connected: coronaviruses and other emerging infectious diseases, loss of biodiversity, and destruction of the environment by humans. Around the world, pathogens and parasites are ...

German agricultural chemist Adolf Eduard Mayer made a startling discovery in 1886. He was studying mosaic disease on tobacco ...

Tobacco mosaic virus is used by scientists as a model organism in order to help them understand the spread of diseases. HIV close HIVHuman Immunodeficiency Virus, a disease which damages cells in ...

Diseases caused by pathogens are called communicable diseases. This means the disease can be transferred from an infected organism to another organism. There are other types of disease which ...

Emerging infectious diseases are infections that have recently appeared within a population or those whose incidence or geographic range is rapidly increasing or threatens to increase in the near ...

However, a recent study has unveiled a more complex picture, suggesting that the pathogens behind conjunctivitis are far more varied than previously thought. This discovery is not only reshaping ...

By: Sarah E. Bowden (Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia) & John M. Drake (Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia) © 2013 Nature Education Depending ...