Drugs and explosive chemicals are difficult to detect, but a device more sensitive than a dog’s nose can pick up their traces ...

In August 2024, the World Health Organization declared a second "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" for mpox.

This pilot study evaluates a newly developed point-of-care (PoC) device designed to measure bilirubin levels in human blood ...

Finding cervical cancer often starts with an abnormal HPV (human papillomavirus) or Pap test result. This will lead to further tests which can diagnose cervical cancer or pre-cancer. The Pap test and ...

Ferrate(VI) (FeVIO42, Fe(VI)) is an emerging oxidant/disinfectant to treat a wide range of contaminants and microbial pollutants in wastewater. This study describes the inactivation of murine ...

The problem of ambiguous genetic tests in medicine The methods developed by the Columbia team was designed to uncover genetic variants that cause APDS, a genetic disease that is caused by specific ...

PLoS ONE. 2012;7:e33754. 14 Siebenga JJ, Vennema H, Zheng D-P, Vinjé J, Lee BE, Pang X-L, et al. Norovirus illness is a global problem: emergence and spread of Norovirus GII.4 variants, 2001-2007. JID ...

Vaxart CEO Steven Lo stated that the company believes its second-generation norovirus oral pill vaccine candidate "has the potential to provide first-in-class or best-in-class protection" against ...

- Second-generation norovirus constructs produce statistically significant increases in GI.1 and GII.4 norovirus blocking antibodies (141% and 94%, respectively) compared with first-generation ...