Public Health

Allowing users to continually monitor biological signals over time, wearable biosensors pave the way toward personalized healthcare.

Researchers design dual CRISPR treatments to remove HIV DNA and prevent reinfection in vitro.

Proper ergonomics minimizes risk factors in the laboratory to optimize individuals’ performance and well-being.

Jie Sun shares how his curiosity, creativity, and motivation to address clinical public health needs steer his research in immunology and infectious disease.

Researchers harness the power of familiar methods to advance science. 

A nucleic acid detection platform that marries CRISPR diagnostic tools with bioluminescence could accelerate treatment decisions in the clinic.

Scientists continue to ring alarm bells about the risks associated with the continued misuse of antimicrobials and advocate for innovative treatments, improved surveillance, and greater public health education.

Male patients who recover from mild COVID-19 have baseline immune states primed to mount stronger responses to future challenges than female patients.

Michael Wiley will discuss detecting pathogens in communities through wastewater surveillance programs.

Scientists and clinicians increasingly use real world data (RWD) to make valuable discoveries that can be applied to the healthcare industry.

In this webinar, Ron Brown discusses the problems with current medical device biological safety assessment approaches and suggests that evidence-based strategies could be the solution. 

Political activist and Nobel winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin pioneered X-ray crystallography to discover the molecular structures of penicillin and insulin.

Advancements in measuring DNA in bodily fluids create new opportunities for understanding disease.

Putting the pieces together for molecular diagnostics and infectious disease research

Scientists prepare for the future by filling in the research gaps between zoonotic viral reservoirs, emerging viruses, and human immune defenses.

The “wound current” has intrigued scientists for more than a century. It could turn out to be the key to healing catastrophic injuries.

Public bathing, ubiquitous around the world and through the ages, plays an often-unappreciated role in public health.

Metagenomic sequencing can help detect unknown pathogens, but its widespread use faces challenges.

Syphilis is among the oldest known sexually-transmitted infections. Scientists still struggle to detect and treat it.