One of the difficulties of diagnosing tuberculosis is that there is no simple blood or urine test. Instead, a laboratory technician must take a sample of sputum coughed up from the lungs, stain it and ...

For those of you who haven’t visited the websites of Carl Zeiss or Nikon lately, fluorescent microscopes are expensive. Typically, microscopes of the sort required by pathologists to make diagnosis ...

Scientists from an Australian university have discovered another toxin used by Bacillus cereus. Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) showed how the toxin can infect cells, even when ...