Led by a team of Cornell faculty, the Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases received a five-year, $8.7 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in ...

Introduction: Current topics in the population biology of infectious diseases -- Heterogeneity, stochasticity and complexity in the dynamics and control of mosquito-borne pathogens -- Seven challenges ...

Kissing bugs, or triatomine bugs, are the primary vector for Chagas disease, a major public health concern in Central and South America and even the southern United States. However, there aren't many ...

Biologists studying disease vectors have been shaken by the shutdown, after 20 years, of VectorBase, a crucial bioinformatics resource that integrates data on invertebrates of importance for human ...

Vector-borne diseases cause roughly 700,000 deaths worldwide every year. Vectors can carry different types of pathogens, including viruses and bacteria. Tropical and subtropical regions report large ...

Claire Huntington, a biotechnology major and class assistant, demonstrates how to apply a sample into gel in the Design to Data program within the Genome Center's Siegel Lab taught by Ashley Vater.

In a recent review published in Nature Reviews Microbiology, researchers discussed the impact of climate change, weather, and other anthropogenic factors on vector-borne illness spread globally. Study ...

Not all cell walls are created equal. Take the peculiar makeup of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium’s cell wall. It might play a role in lingering symptoms of Lyme disease — the most common ...

A study finds small-scale tree cover in Costa Rica boosts biodiversity while limiting dangerous mosquito species. Protecting trees might not seem like a public health strategy, but new research ...

Four tick diseases to know about this season - and they’re all more prevalent than hantavirus - The number of emergency room ...

Protecting trees might not seem like a public health strategy, but new research suggests it could be—especially in the tropics. A Stanford University-led study published May 28 in Landscape Ecology, ...