The percentage of flu tests that were positive reached a high of 33.3 per cent for the week ending Dec. 27, Canada’s highest ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

Mutations in the tumor suppressor TP53 are a common cause of cancer, making the altered protein an attractive target for ...

Cancer cells are basically the ultimate rule-breakers of the body. Under normal conditions, our cells follow a pretty strict ...

A new influenza A variant called subclade K is responsible for the surge in infections, worsened by a lagging vaccination ...

An Australian study has shed light on a pest you’ve probably hosted at some point – and it has unearthed a new theory about ...

HIGH-fat diets have been linked to the UK’s fastest growing cancer – whose subtle symptoms may at first be mistaken for the ...

Restricted access to genome-editing technologies poses serious challenges for countries like India that urgently need such ...

Doctors are seeing colon cancer in people in their 20s and 30s. New research suggests it starts in infancy.

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During ...

Marine bacteria are key to determining whether carbon is recycled near the ocean surface or transported to deeper waters, but many operate in constant threat of being infected by viruses called phages ...