Pathology is the scientific discipline that investigates the mechanisms, structural alterations, and functional consequences of disease in organisms, integrating molecular, cellular, tissue, and organ-level analyses. It encompasses the study of etiological factors, pathogenesis, and morphologic changes, as well as the correlation of these changes with clinical manifestations. Modern pathology spans subfields such as anatomical pathology, which examines tissues and cells, and clinical pathology, which analyzes bodily fluids and molecular markers, often using techniques like histochemistry, immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry, and genomics. As a core biomedical science, pathology provides the conceptual and empirical framework for understanding disease processes and informing diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic strategies.
A protein doctors routinely use to measure how aggressively tumors are growing may also help prevent the chromosome errors that drive cancer, new research by academics at Brunel University of London suggests.
Molecular & Computational biology
May 16, 2026
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A microscopic "plant destroyer" not only helped trigger one of the deadliest famines in modern history but also reshaped global agriculture and gave birth to an entirely new scientific discipline. Now, nearly 180 years after ...
Plants & Animals
May 13, 2026
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What happens inside the lungs before COVID-19 symptoms appear? Research in mink offers a rare window into the early stages of the disease. These insights matter for both animal and human health. Researchers and veterinary ...
Veterinary medicine
Apr 15, 2026
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When she was a kid in the 1970s, Karen Terio wasn't allowed to watch much television, but wildlife specials were permitted. That was how she learned about the work of Jane Goodall, who was studying the behavior of wild chimpanzees ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 14, 2026
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A fungus that can wipe out up to 50% of a sugar beet crop may soon meet its match in a new generation of smart disease forecasting. A new study published in Phytopathology shows how combining drone imagery, weather data, ...
Agriculture
Apr 7, 2026
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Collaboration between the UCO's Agronomy and Genetics departments was key to sequencing the genome of this pathogen, which is responsible for losses of up to €50 million per year. Cercospora leaf spot is an olive tree disease ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 26, 2026
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In conventional pathology and physiology research, two-dimensional (2D) analysis—observing thinly sliced tissue sections—has been mainstream, making it difficult to comprehensively understand the distribution of cells across ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 23, 2026
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Potato dry rot leads to significant losses during storage and postharvest handling, making management of this disease critically important for potato farmers. Colorado State University researchers in the San Luis Valley—one ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2026
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A new computational tool infers changes occurring at the ends of the chromosomes housing our DNA. It does so by detecting structural alterations in cells and tissues captured in images taken of routine medical biopsies, according ...
Biotechnology
Mar 16, 2026
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Researchers from the University of Liverpool's Veterinary Data Science Group and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria have created the world's largest open-source database of canine and feline tumors, containing more ...
Biotechnology
Mar 2, 2026
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