Identifying the source of infection is essential for taking action in outbreaks of Legionnaire's disease. The combination of immunomagnetic separation and flow cytometry delivers precise results in less than two hours and knows virtually no limits to the variety of applications.

The fatal disease smallpox is older and more widespread than scientists so far have proven. A new study by an international team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge shows that the Vikings also suffered from smallpox.

At abandoned oil and gas wells in the North Sea, considerable quantities of the potent greenhouse gas methane escape uncontrolled into the water. This is shown in a new study recently published by researchers from the Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control.

A study conducted by the UAB certifies that despite the presence of microplastics in deep-sea shrimp, the amounts detected do not cause any types of health problems. The research coincides with other studies pointing to the fact that there is no danger for human consumption, either.

The formation of four-stranded DNA has been tracked in living human cells, allowing scientists to see how it works, and its possible role in cancer.

Plant roots stimulate microbial decomposition in soil, a mechanism called ”priming”. It leads to more greenhouse gas emissions, a studie led by among others researchers others Umeå University shows.

Some of the fastest video cameras ever developed have been used by Kaust researchers to clarify how molecular-scale changes to water surfaces may impact the performance of industrial-scale purifications.

The Serum Institute of India (SII), the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world, will begin local trials of the Covid-19 vaccine and also manufacture the vaccine once it gets ready by Oxford and Astra Zeneca.

The Universitat Jaume I (UJI) has found biomolecules of plant origin and it has been tested against plant pathogens as well as pathogens of clinical interest in order to obtain high-quality commercial products for the agricultural and pharmaceutical industry.

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that people who inherited a special variant of an ion channel from Neanderthal ancestors, experience more pain.