A coat against our troubles: new compound can transform air filters into pathogen-killing machines
It is effective against the coronavirus and a wide range of other disease-causing organisms.
Tag: Pathogens
15,000-year-old viruses found in Tibetan glacier ice — and we know nothing about them
Just in case we needed another reason to prevent glaciers from melting.
Want to avoid new pandemics? Preserving biodiversity is step one, research argues
The more diversity we have in nature, the better for our health.
Robots might soon be sanitizing hospital rooms, killing far more bacteria than humans
Robots do a much better job at sanitizing than humans ever could.
Why the WHO put a mysterious ‘Disease X’ on its most-feared list
We don't know anything about disease X -- that's the point.
How Ancestry Shapes Our Immune Cells
The body's defense systems are impressive.
Europeans picked up a customized immune system by having sex with Neanderthals
"Is that a more pronounced inflammatory response or are you just happy to see me?"