Two days before the Environmental Protection Agency was scheduled to further distinguish the Trump administration from its predecessor by phasing out animal testing over criticisms of pointless ...

When a high containment laboratory handling lethal pathogens stumbles, even briefly, it exposes how much of the country’s safety rests on procedures most people never see. The recent scrutiny of a U.S ...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology-based testing method has been widely recognized as the golden standard for detecting infectious agents. Real‐time monitoring of PCR has further simplified ...

Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a biological pathogen that they planned to study at a University of Michigan lab, a complaint filed Tuesday says.The charges come as the Trump ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- The new laboratory for the Arkansas Clean Plant Center for Berries at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station will double the center's testing and cleaning capacity, as the center ...

“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 ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a collection of expert commentaries. You can read the rest of the series here. The world is seeing an increase in disease outbreaks that underscore the critical ...