Using a smartphone to detect norovirus
A little bit of norovirus — the highly infectious microbe that causes about 20 million cases of food poisoning in the United States each year […]
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In the search for new weapons against malaria, most drug development has focused on the parasites that cause the disease. But Duke University researchers are […] One of the most common causes of diarrhea worldwide — accounting for millions of cases and tens of thousands of deaths, mostly of small children […] In nature, group decisions are often a matter of life or death. At first glance, the way certain groups of animals like minnows branch off […] Staying in a hotel or private accommodation is associated with contracting and carrying home drug-resistant bacteria in travellers to low and/or middle-income countries (LMICs), according […] Bacteria in the gut do far more than help digest food in the stomachs of their hosts, they can also tell the genes in their […] A national research team led by UC Davis Health clinicians and researchers from the University of Michigan, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Columbia University, has derived […] In a single sneeze or a cough, as many as 40,000 tiny droplets are forcibly propelled from our mouth and nose into the air. While […] You’ve heard of “in vitro” (the study of things in test tubes) and “in vivo” (the study of things in a living system). Now meet […]
Malaria hijacks your genes to invade your liver
Treatment for common cause of diarrhea more promising: Intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium successfully grown in lab using new technique
Group decisions: When more information isn’t necessarily better
Staying in a hotel during travel to tropical regions is associated with contracting drug-resistant bacteria
New ‘interspecies communication’ strategy between gut bacteria and mammalian hosts uncovered: Study describes molecular language bacteria use to control host genes and development
Febrile infants may not need painful tests, antibiotics, hospitalizations
Effectively collecting tiny droplets for biomedical analysis and beyond
In fimo, we trust: Finally a name for the experimental examination of excrement