A bacterial cell settles onto a nondescript surface. It is plump, healthy and functioning as it should. Nothing appears amiss. But within minutes, the once taut cell is a deflated blob. Zoom in to the ...

“Infectious diseases don’t respect borders,” says Khoa Thai, a clinical microbiologist at the Star-shl medical diagnostics laboratory in the Netherlands. To limit their spread, we need a globally ...

When a dozen merchant ships from the Black Sea docked in Messina, Sicily, in October 1347, they carried a deadly cargo that would change the course of history. Most of the sailors onboard were dead.

The COVID-19 pandemic led to many changes. Among them is universal familiarity with a molecular diagnostic technique that was largely unknown outside clinical use. The polymerase chain reaction — or ...