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As highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread in the U.S., posing serious threats to dairy and poultry farms, both farmers and public health experts need better ways to monitor for ...

Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) represents a groundbreaking diagnostic approach capable of detecting a wide range of pathogens from clinical ...

To ensure successful composting, it’s important to create the right environment for the process to unfold. Proper moisture ...

Last week was the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Asilomar Summit, where scientists came together to establish guidelines for research with genetically modified microbes. Today many more discoveries and ...

Dermatologists like Rossi think people can skip showers altogether, multiple days per week. This view isn’t unanimous, though ...

Scattered across the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, one of the country’s largest environmental hotspots, these bird scavengers ...

The burgeoning field of agricultural nanotechnology offers promising solutions to combat the rise of plant diseases caused by ...

A mysterious and deadly illness is spreading rapidly in Congo claiming lives within hours With no known cause experts race to contain the outbreak before it escalates ...