Fred Hutch names 8 recipients of the Dr. Eddie Méndez Award
SEATTLE — June 23, 2026 — Fred Hutch Cancer Center announced eight recipients of this year’s Dr. Eddie…
Biologists Want NASA to Build a Quarantine Lab for Alien Germs on the Moon
International concerns over Earth possibly contaminating distant worlds with microbes—or our spacecraft potentially bringing a deadly alien pathogen…
How clinicians can identify and manage Ebola, hantavirus
Two deadly infectious diseases, Ebola https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.260834 and hantavirus https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.260789, have made headlines in recent weeks as they pose…
General-purpose chatbots outperform clinical AI tools on physicians’ real-world questions
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Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago
Barbieri, R. et al. Yersinia pestis: the natural history of plague. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00044-19 (2020). Article PubMed …
Sidewalk yeast species could lead to eco-friendly mosquito traps
An orange-colored yeast species isolated from a Baltimore sidewalk several years ago could be the basis of eco-friendly…
A phage puts a new spin on bacterial flagella
Transposon-encoded TnpB proteins are RNA-guided nucleases that use a transposon-encoded guide RNA to cleave DNA target sequences, promoting…
Progress and gaps shape India’s tuberculosis control strategy
Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Tuberculosis (TB) is among the main infectious diseases responsible for…
Apitegromab for lean mass preservation during tirzepatide-induced weight loss: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2 trial
Trial details EMBRAZE was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial (NCT06445075) conducted at seven sites in the…
Bacteria ‘Rewire’ Epithelial Cells and Drive Disease in the Gut
Alexandra Grote, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, was a co-author of the…
Pediatric Risk Factors for Severe Respiratory Infections
A new study finds that underlying chronic conditions and hospital transfers are major indicators of severe disease in…
New project launches to advance chikungunya vaccine in Africa
Funded by the Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking, a new €15.3 million project coordinated by Institut Pasteur brings…