Infectious diseases

Although anti-HIV drugs can significantly prolong life, patients must take the drugs for the rest of their lives. New approaches to therapeutics may...

Scientists who recently discovered a new strain of superbug have now tracked its transmission between animals and humans.

A ground-breaking imaging system to track malarial infection of blood cells in real time has been created by a collaboration catalysed by the...

New research is helping to unveil how the parasite that causes sleeping sickness uses stealth tactics to escape detection by the human immune system.

New research shows how some bacterial cells keep a ‘suicide complex’ ready to hand at all times.

A newly designated Collaborating Centre at the University of Cambridge will support the World Health Organization (WHO) in detecting and responding...

Cambridge University researchers, funded by the BBSRC, have shed new light on a common food poisoning bug.

New discoveries by Cambridge scientists about a molecular waste-disposal process that ‘eats’ bacteria are influencing the clinical management of...