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1 week ago | 
laboratoryequipment.com | Michelle Taylor
PFAS are known as “forever chemicals” because of their extreme persistence. This persistence is why PFAS chemicals became popular in the first place—they are good at what they do. However, we are now seeing that this extreme persistence is also what contributes to pollution in a variety of matrices, as well as toxic effects on human health. Found in a variety of matrices, PFAS are especially persistent in water and food packaging.
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2 weeks ago | 
laboratoryequipment.com | Michelle Taylor
A four-year follow up to a 2017 study has revealed the microbial mechanisms behind why newborns treated with antibiotics go on to have a permanently underdeveloped immune system. The data also suggests a way to minimize or even reverse the risk in the future.
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3 weeks ago | 
einnews.com | Michelle Taylor
Girl Scouts Louisiana East Partners with Cox Mobile, Second Harvest Food Bank for Cookies for a Cause Customers can show their support for Girl Scouts Louisiana East and Second Harvest Food Bank by buying cookies to keep and donate through the online order form and picking up at the Cookies for a Cause event on June 21.
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3 weeks ago | 
laboratoryequipment.com | Michelle Taylor
Coming off the worst flu season in nearly two decades, an internation cohort of leading researchers have shown that person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which flu strains dominate in a population. Infection or vaccination with the influenza virus elicits a neutralizing antibody response targeting the viral hemagglutinin (HA) protein. These antibodies protect against infection, providing immunity to strains that they neutralize.
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1 month ago | 
laboratoryequipment.com | Michelle Taylor
Ancient DNA samples from as long as 2,300 years ago are revealing evolutionary secrets about Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever and is a distant cousin of the bacteria that causes modern Lyme disease. Only three known species of bacteria, including B. recurrentis, have transitioned from being carried primarily by ticks to lice, changing the potential severity of the disease. It was unknown when B.
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1 month ago | 
laboratoryequipment.com | Michelle Taylor
A 6-month-old born with a rare genetic disorder is the world’s first person successfully treated with a customized CRISPR gene editing therapy in a historic medical breakthrough. The infant, KJ, was diagnosed with a rare metabolic disease—an urea cycle disorder known as severe carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1) deficiency. During the normal breakdown of proteins in the body, ammonia is naturally produced.
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1 month ago | 
laboratoryequipment.com | Michelle Taylor
Last week, Sudip Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), testified before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee regarding the “grave risk” to U.S. leadership in biomedical and scientific research under the Trump Administration.
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1 month ago | 
laboratoryequipment.com | Michelle Taylor
Researchers in Pittsburg have developed and tested an infectious diseases platform that can prevent the spread of hospital-based infections—and thereby deaths—while saving hundreds of thousands of dollars. They tested the detection system over a two-year period at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, where it was proven to stop outbreaks, save lives and cut costs. “We saved lives while saving money.
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2 months ago | 
laboratoryequipment.com | Michelle Taylor
In 2023, after almost a decade-long legal battle, communities in the Intag Valley of Ecuador won a significant case after a court ruled to halt copper mining in one of the world’s most biodiverse forests—with the plaintiff being an endangered frog species. Now, a group of international authors have published a paper outlining Ecuador’s success in legally championing nature in the hopes of inspiring similar cases on a more global—and consistent—level.
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2 months ago | 
laboratoryequipment.com | Michelle Taylor
About 2 million people in the United States do not have access to running water or indoor plumbing in their homes. In addition, 30 million more Americans live where drinking water systems violate safety rules. Water privatization has been proposed as both a solution to and an exacerbator of these challenges, but its potential consequences had not been investigated on a national scale.
