The Xpert GI Panel identifies pathogens directly from stool specimens collected in Cary-Blair transport media.

Texas A&M AgriLife researchers track foodborne pathogens in produce and meat to improve food safety and protect consumers.

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CHICAGO (CBS) -- Warmer temperatures are impacting the food supply and its safety, experts warned amid an outbreak of E. coli that has struck McDonald's Quarter Pounders. Experts said pathogens—the ...

Safety experts share their biggest concerns. From radioactive shrimp to vodka seltzer in energy drink cans, food and beverage ...

When our body is attacked by a pathogen, the pathogen has to find ways to evade our immune system and invade our cells to cause infection and illness. Reporting in Cell, researchers have now ...

Particles of plastic float in the ocean. Microplastics are able to carry pathogens from land to parts of the ocean they would normally never reach, a UC Davis study found. (Getty) Microplastics are a ...

Purdue University researchers have developed a device for more conveniently detecting pathogens in health care settings, on ...

Food security is of great concern as global temperatures continue to warm. The availability of food and how crops will fare as a result of climate change has long been of interest to environmental ...

Thanks to a new sampling technique, scientists can now monitor whale health in a non-invasive way. While this development is ...