Hoarding is a condition where a person feels compelled to store and preserve materials and stuff which may or may […]
Programmable swarmbots make flexible biological tools: The biomanufacturing platform uses bursting bacteria and a shrinking capsule to produce targeted proteins
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new platform to create biologic drugs using specially engineered bacteria that burst […]
6 in 10 Infectious Diseases Come from Animals. The CDC Is Most Worried About These 8.
More than half of the infectious diseases that affect people come from animals. Now, for the first time, the government […]
Significant delays in West Nile virus reporting: Delays impact accurate infectious disease forecasting
Mount Sinai researchers found significant delays in reporting human cases of West Nile virus, hampering real-time forecasting of the potentially […]
How Bad Can the NYC Measles Outbreak Get?
A growing measles outbreak in New York City has led officials to declare a public health emergency in parts of […]
Supporting HIV-affected couples trying to conceive: A pilot study identifies a safe, effective strategy to help women with HIV have children in low-resource countries
Women with HIV were once advised against having children for fear that the infection could be passed on to their […]
Mozambicans line up for cholera vaccines to fight outbreak
Mozambicans lined up Wednesday to get cholera vaccines in the cyclone-hit city of Beira, at the start of a drive […]
First ever living donor HIV-to-HIV kidney transplant
For the first time, a person living with HIV has donated a kidney to a transplant recipient also living with […]
Partial oral antibiotic therapy safe and effective in infectious endocarditis: Long-term follow-up finds fewer deaths and complications than with IV treatment
Patients with an infection of the inner lining on the left side of the heart (endocarditis) who were switched from […]
Novel potent antimicrobial from thermophilic bacterium
University of Groningen microbiologists and their colleagues from Lithuania have discovered a new glycocin, a small antimicrobial peptide with a […]