COVID-19 antibody testing that’s portable, fast, cheap and highly precise—four attributes that are usually mutually exclusive—could be possible with a microfluidic device invented at the University of Michigan and developed by U-M startup Optofluidic Bioassay.
When University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Abrar Abidi heard that several staff members at the San Francisco County Jail had tested positive for COVID-19, he and others worked around the clock to manufacture, package and deliver more than 900 bottles of hand sanitizer to the jail – enough for each inmate at all five county lockups.
The N95 respirator mask is, for many medical care professionals, the first line of defense against COVID-19 and dwindling supplies are one of the biggest threats to health systems during this pandemic.
Concern over the number of individuals who have contracted COVID-19 without contact with a symptomatic individual have researchers rushing to get some kind of estimate of just how many individuals are infected with COVID-19 but show no symptoms.
Canadian researchers might have found a new avenue for treatments that could prevent Alzheimer's and then intervene once the disease is present.
Methylation is a heritable information pattern found in living organisms - distinct from the DNA sequence - that governs expression of genes. Methylation does not occur in all species, but it is not uncommon. Until this publication the methylation pattern has been understood by scientists to rely on enzymes to deposit and maintain it.
Researchers have discovered a molecular switch that can stop inflammation related to aging and diabetes.
There are structures inside your cells that can (and do) automatically organize your DNA.
Researchers have discovered an organism that does not need to breathe to survive.
Three moth species have the same gene that can cause them to change colors, researchers learned last year.
The discovery of a link between waxworms and bacteria that devour plastic by Brandon University researchers could lead to new means to reduce plastic waste worldwide, the scientists said.
Researchers using digital tissue reconstruction of mouse-liver tissue have discovered what happens inside the liver when it regrows.
The extinction of Wrangel Island mammoths was likely caused by genetic mutations that these animals lived with. A new study published in “Genome Biology and Evolution“ cited several reasons for the decline of the mammoths that lived on Russia’s Wrangel Island, including “reduced genetic diversity,” which led to mutated genes.
A computational biologist and science illustrator has painted a coronavirus, and recently revealed his creation, which shows the coronavirus as it entered the lungs.
According to José Ferreira and Leonardo Kerber, researchers at the Federal University of Santa Maria in Brazil, there was once a giant rodent in South America that was the size of a Saint Bernard dog, but with a brain no bigger than a golf ball. Paleontology World says that the rodent the team discovered is the largest ever to have lived in South America.
Scientific research about sea lillies has been misdirected for more than 170 years, a new study in the Journal of Paleontology revealed.
BioMed Central reported a study was done with bonobos in the Congo basin to discover how prehistoric humans were able to meet their nutritional needs.
Mammals have complex backbones compared to other animals, according to a press release by the Field Museum.
Recent research found that while birds and bats have similar microbiomes, they do not rely on them much, which scientists believe is related to their ability to fly.
Two researchers at Caltech are developing a small robot that mimics the motions of bees to both swim and fly.