Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in the northern US. The tick linked to Lyme disease is local to the Northeast, so other regions see different illnesses. In the South and central US, ...

As Justin Timberlake revealed this week that he has been quietly battling Lyme disease during his recent world tour, the latest data from the CDC shows how dramatically the tick-borne illness has been ...

For decades, geneticists have known that most common illnesses are not caused by a single rogue gene but by intricate ...

Hiking and camping fanatics know all too well the risks of a tick bite. Ticks are tiny but carry mighty illnesses, including Lyme disease. They thrive in heavily wooded areas across the U.S. and ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has already infected more than 46.83 million people globally and claimed over ...

An international collaboration is building a COVID-19 Disease Map: a comprehensive repository incorporating all current knowledge on the virus-host interaction mechanisms. In the fight against the ...

Mapping and mapmaking -- Medical mapmaking: early histories -- Mapping and statistics: 1830-1849 -- John Snow: the London epidemics -- The cholera debate -- Map as intent: variations on John Snow -- ...

In the fight against the current pandemic, researchers of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg are coordinating an international collaboration to build ...

Nearly ten years ago, Dr. Mathias Uhlén, director of the Human Protein Atlas and a senior professor of microbiology, predicted that the next big leap in understanding disease would come from viewing ...

A new genome-wide mapping method finally shows how thousands of genes connect to drive disease. Biomedical researchers are working intensively to identify the genes that contribute to disease, with ...