The Agriculture Department has since 2019 lagged in finalizing new standards for salmonella or campylobacter in meat and ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford are part of a team that has received a grant to develop vaccines against ...

Experts have suggested reasons why a reduction of Campylobacter in chicken meat has not led to a decrease in infections in ...

The Ineos Oxford Institute has been awarded £5 million to develop vaccines for pathogens that cause diarrhoea.

An expert elicitation exercise was conducted to develop testable hypotheses that could explain why the decline in highly contaminated chicken carcasses available at retail did not lead to a ...

Phage therapy is the therapeutic use of bacteriophages to treat bacterial infections. It offers a precise, natural alternative to antibiotics using viruses that specifically target and kill bacteria ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now ...

Zoonotic pathogens very likely caused the last pandemic. Can we get better at halting them before the next one?

Dec. 5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes ... A Fossil First: Scientists Find ...

Salmonella, EHEC and noroviruses, campylobacter or listeria – there are numerous bacteria, viruses and parasites that can be transmitted to humans via food and can cause foodborne infections. Many of ...

Plastic usage soared from 1.5 million metric tons in the 1950s to nearly 390.7 million in 2021. With the increased use in consumer products came elevated microscopic plastic pollution circulating ...