Microplastics – tiny pieces of plastic less than 5 mm in length – are everywhere, from bottled water to food to air. They have been found in the deepest part of the ocean and the top of Mount Everest. According to recent estimates, people consume tens of thousands of these particles each year, with unknown […]

To solve the mysteries of how learning and memory occur, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists have created a system to track millions of connections among brain cells in mice – all at the same time – when the animals’ whiskers are tweaked, an indicator for learning.

Metrion Biosciences, a specialist ion channel contract research and drug discovery company, and Bioqube Ventures, a specialist European life sciences investment firm, have entered into a collaboration, backed by Bioqube Factory Fund I, to incubate a drug discovery research project targeting autoimmune diseases.

42 Technology (42T), FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, and Rutgers University have worked together to develop an innovative stool sample processing kit that has played a central role in informing the World Health Organi-zation’s (WHO) recent policy update to improve the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in children.