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The fungal infection Candida auris is a concern in health care facilities because the infection spreads easily, resists drug therapy and is difficult to treat.

When a healthy 20-year-old in Rockland County, New York, presented in an emergency room earlier this year with sudden leg paralysis, the diagnosis of polio ...

Vaccines have protected people from deadly diseases for generations. Could they also help fight cancer? Mayo Clinic researchers are working to develop personalized therapeutic cancer vaccines ...

Cuando los avances científicos hacen noticias, por ejemplo medicamentos nuevos para el tratamiento del COVID o un nuevo concepto como CRISPR para la edición de ...

When scientific advances burst into the news, such as a new medication to treat COVID-19 or a new concept like CRISPR for gene editing, people ...

COVID-19 vaccine are bringing nanoparticle bioengineering technology into the news. But what are nanoparticles? What are nanoparticle vaccines? And how could one vaccine provide immunity ...

With a new gene-editing tool called CRISPR, scientists have the power to tweak the genomes of plants, animals and even humans. Read on to learn ...