Over the last year more than 100 U.S. children have been affected by a mysterious paralysis called acute flaccid myelitis. The sudden development of muscle weakness or paralysis in children’s arms or legs was initially linked to enterovirus…

Sample management should move from being an afterthought to become an integral part of the planning and execution of each experiment and research project As research articles authored by multiple groups across many institutions and countries…

Over 60% of retracted scientific articles are retracted due to unintentional errors. This includes errors caused by mislabeling of sample tubes containing key reagents, cell lines, microbial stocks or expression plasmids. Even with…

Mesenchymal stromal cell use in treating severe graft-versus-host disease. The Graft-versus-Host Disease (GvHD) is a disease resulting from allogeneic bone marrow transplantation which is the only effective therapy for some hematological…

Testing for more than 1000 different strains of viruses in a single, multiplex reaction by using less than a drop of blood! The method called VirScan has been developed and published recently by George J. Xu and colleagues. It allows…