YONGSAN, SOUTH KOREA -- In a scene from the 1960s science fiction British television show, Doctor Who, mobile robots roamed the streets using ultraviolent rays to 'exterminate' any humans in their ...

There are few scientific advances that have had such a dramatic impact on the course of human history as the theory that ...

Knowing how germs are transmitted is key to preventing disease, and it varies for different bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens. In some cases, you have to come into direct contact with an infected ...

What would happen if all the diseases in the world hit us at the exact same time? – Gabriella, age 12, Irving, Texas When I was younger, I would watch “Batman” on my black-and-white television after ...

In a recent review published in the journal PNAS, researchers examined the germ theory from a non-centric perspective on infection outcome, considering the variables that influence illness severity ...

Imagine a robot that looks something like R2D2 from Star Wars or Rosie from the Jetsons, but with a sole purpose — to zap germs to death. San Antonio-based Xenex Disinfection Services Inc. is making ...

A healthy 52-year-old woman died after developing a pyopneumothorax, a collection of pus and air between the lung and the chest wall, caused by a typically benign mouth bacterium. The case report was ...

A 17-month-long study at the Cambria County Prison has determined that the air filtration system installed by Germ Solution ...

The CDC is growing the reach of its online germ database to allow labs to search for protein signatures of bacteria and compare them to rare pathogens in the CDC database. The online bacterial ...

In recent months, the U.S. government has taken steps to defund and dismantle key infectious disease programs, including a National Institutes of Health lab that has contributed to groundbreaking work ...