Researchers warn ultra-sensitive food safety pathogen tests may trigger unnecessary recalls and food waste despite trace level detections posing limited health risk.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Hologic’s first gastrointestinal (GI) pathogen detection tests. The FDA ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pathotrak Inc., a startup on a mission to revolutionize food safety and the food supply chain to make outbreaks a thing of the past, has received AOAC ® Performance ...

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 ...

Join us to explore recent advancements and applications of isothermal amplification techniques, such as LAMP, RCA, and RPA. We will compare these methods with traditional PCR, discuss their benefits ...

The Myhrvold lab develops CRISPR-based technologies for studying RNA. Our primary interest is RNAs involved in host-pathogen interactions. We use a variety of RNA viruses and other pathogens as model ...

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.

A groundbreaking seven-year study reveals how metagenomic sequencing offers a more accurate, comprehensive approach to diagnosing difficult CNS infections—spotting pathogens that traditional tests ...

Congresswoman Dina Titus is set to announce a new grant of more than $1 million supporting UNLV’s Instrumentation for Pathogen Detection in Water project.

A new study has revealed that despite the recent pandemic, outbreak detection efforts remain under-resourced in South and Southeast Asia, with only about half the countries reviewed having integrated ...