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If there has been one silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been the rise of rapid self-tests, which provide results at home in minutes. Researchers are hard at work at developing similar tests ...

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Herpes is a lifelong infection, but Lauren had it only for six tumultuous months. Or rather, she believed she did, after a request for sexually transmitted disease testing returned a positive result.

Ever had an antibody negatively impact your experimental results? You’re not alone. Life science is littered with the rude awakenings of researchers who watched promising results turn to dust because ...

DELMAR, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The LymeSeq test could change the way you are tested for Lyme disease. They will be taking people’s blood later this month and they already have 80 participants. The samples ...

CLEVELAND - A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be ...

This bacterial infection is spread through the bite of a young deer tick or black-legged tick. These eight-legged creatures, about the size of a poppy seed, can be found in wooded and grassy areas ...