According to Dr. Ezra Orlofsky who led the research while working on his doctorate at BGU’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, “Rapid and reliable pathogen detection in field samples is critical ...

Researchers at Michigan State University are working on a rapid testing cell phone method to detect bacteria on poultry that causes human illnesses such as infections from Salmonella and Campylobacter ...

Scientists have pioneered a revolutionary point-of-care detection technique for Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a bacterium accountable for numerous foodborne ailments (1 Trusted Source A visual, rapid, and ...

The use of rapid respiratory pathogen testing for influenza-like illness in a pediatric ED did not reduce antibiotic prescribing, according to findings from a randomized clinical trial that were ...

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.

Identification of sepsis-causing bacteria using a new microarray platform* is highly accurate and delivers results an average of 18 hours faster than the current gold-standard system, which uses ...

A team of scientists headed by SANKEN (The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research) at Osaka University demonstrated that single virus particles passing through a nanopore could be accurately ...

A highly sensitive, cost-effective technology to rapidly detect bacterial pathogens in the air, soil, water and agricultural produce in as little as 24 hours has been developed by researchers at ...