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When babies crawl, their movement across floors, especially carpeted surfaces, kicks up high levels of dirt, skin cells, bacteria, pollen, and fungal spores, a new study has found. The infants inhale a dose of bio bits in their lungs that is four times (per kilogram of body mass) what an adult would breathe walking across the same floor. However, this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Ovation.io, Inc. (Ovation), makers of the fastest-growing clinical laboratory information and commercialization platform, and Coriell Life Sciences, Inc., an innovative provider of clinical genetic reporting solutions, announced a partnership and platform integration designed to create a seamless ecosystem for sample and workflow management, genetic data interpretation, and external client communication.

The European Commission have earmarked €1 billion to bring state-of-the-art supercomputers to the EU, in a joint project with EU member states.

A new 3D printing technique allows researchers to replicate biological structures, which could be used for tissue regeneration and replica organs.

An experimental treatment developed from cattle plasma for Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus infection shows broad potential, according to a small clinical trial. The treatment, SAB-301, was safe and well tolerated by healthy volunteers, with only minor reactions documented.

The Blue Brain Nexus will help enable data-driven science through searching, integrating and tracking large-scale data and models.

Researchers have taken inspiration from gecko toes to create a dry adhesive with stiff polycarbonate using a nanoimprinting technique to build web-like layers. The method is cost-effective, easy to perform and scalable. This development could someday make it easier to defy gravity.

Using whole-genome analysis and chemogenomics, scientists have discovered novel antimalarial drug targets and drug-resistance genes. The researchers analyzed >250 Plasmodium falciparum cell lines, which were resistant to 37 different anti-malarial compounds.

Researchers around the globe have worked together to create a DNA database of rhinoceros that will be used to help with the criminal prosecution of poachers.

A new case study has been published by Autoscribe Informatics which describes how the newly established Biobank is using the Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for complete tracking of all of its samples.