A Northern Virginia startup building technology to identify health threats like pathogens and contaminants recently landed major funding to expand product development and hire more employees. Founded ...

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD – Future battlefields require an on-the-go approach to the identification of whatever biological threat our warfighters may come across. One such approach – Far-Forward ...

In most people, these bacteria coexist peacefully and contribute to a mutually beneficial relationship, with both human and ...

Aerosols play a critical role in the transmission of airborne pathogens by acting as carriers that transport pathogens between the environment and humans. Timely and accurate detection of these ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When you think of electric fields, you likely think of electricity – the stuff that makes modern life possible by powering everything from household appliances to cellphones.

Prof Nicole Strittmatter (left) and first author Wei Chen stand in front of the mass spectrometer with a tissue sample. Traditionally, bacterial diseases are diagnosed by the tedious isolation of ...

Far too many antibiotics are used around the world. As a result, bacteria are becoming resistant. Curing bacterial diseases is becoming more difficult than before, because antibiotics are perhaps our ...

Imagine creating a comprehensive, searchable index for a library containing hundreds of millions of books—a task that would take a single person a lifetime to complete. Now imagine discovering that ...

A groundbreaking study reveals how specific gut microbes may cause people to become intoxicated without drinking, opening ...