FORT DETRICK, Md. – Researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases are testing a promising new biological threat detection method in high-fidelity training scenarios, ...

Two studies have looked into whether private certifications improve food safety with results varying by certification ...

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 ...

Every so often, a food product is recalled because of some sort of contamination. For consumers of such products, a recall can trigger doubt in the safety and reliability of what they eat and drink.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are the nation's pre-eminent source of high-quality, objective advice on science, engineering, and health matters. Top experts participate ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Karius®, Inc. today announced it has been awarded a contract from the Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures (DRIVe), under the Biomedical Advanced ...

Infectious disease poses a threat to human health and is becoming more dangerous with increasing urbanization, population growth, and climate change. Fortunately, genomic sequencing technologies have ...

A bottleneck to enabling widespread access to molecular diagnostics, especially in low- and middle-income countries, has been the high cost and complex logistics associated with rapid point-of-care ...

A new analysis method can detect pathogens in blood samples faster and more accurately than blood cultures, which are the current state of the art for infection diagnosis. The new method, called ...