"We are just at the beginning of a very exciting era," says Aerogen Director of R&D, Science and Emerging Technologies Ronan ...

Syringes vary by the amount of insulin they hold and the size of the needle. They’re made of plastic and should be discarded after one use. Insulin is injected subcutaneously, or into the fat ...

If you’re in Seattle within sight of the Space Needle this Friday night, look up toward the Needle around 7:30 p.m. and you’ll see colorful lasers washing over Seattle’s skies. These lasers ...

Certain insect-specific viruses (ISVs), specifically the mosquito alphaviruses, Eilat and Yada Yada viruses, and orthoflaviviruses, Binjari, Aripo, YN15-283-02 and Chaoyang viruses, have emerged as ...

The Kakeya conjecture was inspired by a problem asked in 1917 by Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya: What is the region of smallest possible area in which it is possible to rotate a needle 180 ...

Sterility testing is a critical quality control measure that ensures pharmaceutical products and medical devices are free from microbial contamination before being released to patients. However, ...

Tick bites allow disease-causing microbes, including multiple species of Rickettsia bacteria, to pass from arthropods to humans. Being exposed to Rickettsia parkeri, for example, can cause a scab at ...

The skin is an active immune organ that functions as the first and largest site of defense to the outside environment. Serving as the primary interface between host and pathogen, the skin’s early ...

Knowledge of the host factors required for norovirus replication has been hindered by the challenges associated with culturing human noroviruses. We have combined proteomic analysis of the viral ...