A new Trojan horse approach could lead to treatments for some antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacterium can be sterilized by hijacking its haem-acquisition syst... Read more
Protecting crops from pests and pathogens without using toxic pesticides has been a longtime goal of farmers. Researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute have found that compounds from an unlike... Read more
A platform that can diagnose several diseases with a high degree of precision using metabolic markers found in patients’ blood has been developed by scientists at the University of Campinas... Read more
A strip of paper can now indicate presence of pathogens, tumor DNA, or any genetic signature of interest. 100-fold greater sensitivity, the ability to detect multiple targets at once, and ot... Read more
Researchers have developed a process for creating ultrathin, self-assembling sheets of synthetic materials that can function like designer flypaper in selectively binding with viruses, bacte... Read more
A multidisciplinary group that includes the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Washington at Tacoma has developed a novel platform to diagnose infectious diseas... Read more
“The most promising food-safety innovation in recent years.” In the world of food safety, it’s not just about food poisoning outbreaks and recalls. Sometimes there... Read more
How to tell the bad news from the really bad news There are so many news stories about antibiotic resistance these days that you may be tempted to ignore them all just to preserve your sanit... Read more
Contained Bacteria Change Color When They Contact Toxins Although drinking water is monitored more strictly than almost anything, our water supply network is still not immune to accidents, w... Read more