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All of this disproportionately affects the elderly. In a 2023 study of patients with a median age of 75, approximately 30% of ...

Many disease-causing bacteria, viruses or fungi live on cloth, plastic and metal objects in your bathroom. Here's what you ...

CellVoyant, a U.K.-based startup, has launched an AI platform that allows scientists to predict the future health and ...

In a lab far from the Arctic, a virus that had been locked in ice for tens of thousands of years was coaxed back into ...

In a corner of a national park where the ground steams and the air smells faintly of sulfur, scientists have stumbled on a ...

"The infection of our body cells is like a dance between virus and cell," suggested Yohei Yamauchi at ETH Zurich. With their new system, the team watched how single flu virus particles move across the ...

Purdue University researchers found that a subset of epidermal cells in plant leaves serves as early responders to chemical cues from bacterial pathogens and communicate this information to neighbors ...

New NE-AFM method measures nuclear stiffness in living cells. It shows cancer nuclei change softness with chromatin and environment, aiding diagnosis and treatment. By employing a technique called ...

(a) A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of the nanoneedle probe used for the measurements. (b) Elasticity map of a 1 µm × 1 µm area on the nuclear surface, showing the change in elasticity ...

Beaches across multiple states have been issued health advisories due to elevated bacteria levels across Labor Day weekend. States impacted by bacteria-related closures and warnings include California ...

This is part of a NASA-supported project hoping to fabricate "device-ready" wafers from space-grown crystals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...