Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), a Gram-positive, spore-forming bacteria, is the most common cause of hospital-acquired infection in the United States, responsible for an estimated...
Flow cytometry was once relegated to sophisticated core laboratories, where only highly trained scientists could operate the complex instrumentation. Now, major advances in flow...
Luminex Corporation announced that it has received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an expanded version of its NxTAG Respiratory...
Leveraging expertise developed from his extensive work with HIV, Jackson Laboratory (JAX) Professor Derya Unutmaz, MD, led an effort to develop two assays. The first one is a ...
Siemens Healthineers announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the company’s laboratory-based IL-6 assay to...
In a study involving mice and human autopsy tissue, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Cambridge University have shown that some of these immune cells ...
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is a widely used technique to analyze the anatomy of a tissue of interest and to visualize the expression, localization, and intensity of a specific...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to claim lives around the world, much research has focused on the immune system’s role in patients who become seriously ill. A popular theory...
A clinical trial has begun testing an experimental stem cell treatment against the best available biologic therapies for severe forms of relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS). The...
Children and teens with bipolar depression responded better to an antipsychotic medicine if they had increased markers of inflammation in their blood, a new University of Wisconsin...
No one knows what makes a mild dengue viral infection morph into a severe and sometimes deadly dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome. Experts previously believed the ...
