A recent study on the application of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) found that mNGS can achieve early ...

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San Diego doctors are expressing apprehension about the new policy on COVID-19 vaccines rolled out by the U.S. Food and Drug ...

If you've ever sat waiting at the doctor's office to give a blood sample, you might have wished there was a way to find the same information without needles. But for all the medical breakthroughs of ...

The emergence and global spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) pose one of the most critical threats to public health in ...

Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ticks, and how it gained ...

Medical anthropologist Emily Mendenhall, Professor in the Science, Technology, and International Affairs Program in the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, ...