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A new COVID-19 test kit combines virus amplification with a CRISPR-Cas system for effective SARS-CoV-2 detection.

Researchers are developing a user-friendly method to reconstruct and analyze SSU rRNA from raw metagenome data for easy identification of microbes in environmental samples.

A team from the University of Sheffield has designed and built a specialist microscope and shared the build instructions to help make this equipment available worldwide.

An international team of researchers made use of two long-running grassland biodiversity experiments in Europe and North America, to investigate whether and how increasing plant diversity can naturally reduce the impacts of herbivores on plants.

Researchers are developing a fast and simple method of authenticating wine – a potential solution against the estimated billions of dollars’ worth of wine fraud globally, but also offering a possible means of building regional branding.

A new study has found that a commonly prescribed antidepressant may halt the growth of childhood sarcoma, in mice and laboratory cell-based experiments.

Aspirin will be investigated in the world’s largest clinical trial of treatments for patients hospitalized with COVID-19 – the Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY (RECOVERY) trial.

Unrelated mutations, when present in the blood, can lead to false positive results in men with advanced prostate cancer who are undergoing liquid biopsies.

At high concentrations, reactive oxygen species are harmful to cells in all organisms and have been linked to aging. But a recent study has now shown that low levels of the oxidant hydrogen peroxide can stimulate an enzyme that helps slow down the aging of yeast cells.

Dr. Sonia Waiczies and her colleagues made a discovery in an MS animal model: They observed that the ventricle volume changed over the course of the disease. When they used an antigen to trigger encephalitis in mice, MRI scans clearly showed that the ventricles expanded.