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The highly sensitive, fast and low-cost test demonstrates great potential for wide applications in diverse working environments. It is simple enough to be performed at schools, health clinics, pharmacies and parts of the world where diagnostic laboratories are not available.

A team at TU Wien was able to answer important questions about the immune system - with a trick reminiscent of paper folding.

After studying microbial communities living on bristles from used toothbrushes, researchers found those communities matched microbes commonly found inside the mouth and on skin. This was true no matter where the toothbrushes had been stored, including shielded behind a closed medicine cabinet door or out in the open on the edge of a sink.

A research team has developed a new type of model and its implementation using synthetic biology can reproduce the symmetry breakage observed in embryos with the minimum amount of ingredients possible.

Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors are commonly used to treat HIV. Research published in PNAS now suggests that they may be a potential treatment strategy against dry macular degeneration as well.

A gene panel that looks for approximately 10 times the number of cancer-causing genes as panels currently used to diagnose and discover treatments for a variety of cancers is effective at finding problematic genes in acute myeloid leukemia.

A recent study overviews a plethora of marine litter monitoring survey data available for different regions of the world ocean, as well as modelling data, in order to answer this compelling question. But the answer might not be so straightforward.

Evidence of an impending breakup may exist in the small words used in everyday conversations months before either partner realizes where their relationship is heading, according to new psychology research.

Errors in the way chromosomes are packed into antibody-producing B cells may play a role in the development of B cell-related blood cancers, according to a new study published in Nature Genetics.

A new study provides evidence that an early presence of SARS-CoV-2 specific T cells in COVID-19 is likely to prevent severe disease. The study has important implications for the clinical management of COVID-19 patients.