Streptococcus agalactiae, also known as Group B strep (GBS), is a Gram-positive colonizing bacterium that can cause life-threatening complications for newborns when it is passed...
Based on the results of a new high value healthcare study, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers recommend that doctors avoid routine urine testing of older patients with delirium...
A diet rich in fermented foods enhances the diversity of gut microbes and decreases molecular signs of inflammation, according to researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine...
Hypercapnia is a build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the blood. It occurs when tiny air sacs in the lungs called alveoli are unable to adequately exchange CO2 from the blood for...
Why did you decide to develop a digital microfluidics platform for newborn screening? What problems in newborn testing did you want to address? We have a lot of collaborations...
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has awarded an additional $14.6 million in funding to Selux Diagnostics for its next-generation 'phenotyping...
In a recent study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, a team at the University of Michigan explored the association between genetic variants throughout...
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) is among the leading causes for treatment in adult primary care medicine and represents a significant proportion of antibiotic prescriptions. A UTI...
Scientists have developed new image processing techniques for microscopes that can reduce post-processing time up to several thousand-fold. The researchers are from the National...
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are often accompanied by amyloid proteins in the brain that have become clumped or misfolded. At Washington University...
Sometimes the end of an intestinal infection is just the beginning of more misery. Of those who contract traveler’s diarrhea, for example, an unlucky few go on to develop irritable...
