There may be new hope in the fight against Lyme disease, a tick-borne infection that sometimes results in chronic illness. Researchers at MIT and the University of Helsinki have determined that human ...

Horses exposed to samples of sweat from people who had had a scary experience appeared more afraid themselves: the animals ...

Given that dogs have a Lyme disease vaccine, it is particularly frustrating that their human companions remain vulnerable to the notorious illness. People with Lyme disease suffer serious symptoms ...

A mutant gene that produces proteins in sweat may raise some people's risk of Lyme disease, while the standard version of the gene may protect against infection. When you purchase through links on our ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Lyme disease, a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks, affects nearly half a million people in the United States every year. In most cases, antibiotics effectively clear the ...

Human sweat contains a protein that may protect against Lyme disease. About one-third of the population carries a genetic variant of this protein that is associated with Lyme disease in genome-wide ...