Human coronaviruses can remain infectious on inanimate surfaces at room temperature for up to 9 days. At a temperature of 30°C or more the duration of persistence is shorter. Surface dis… Read More

The importance of handwashing in the clinical setting is demonstrated by 80% of sepsis cases are contracted outside of the hospital (see video below), hand hygiene plays a critical role in t… Read More

The rapid global spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has caused societal, economic, and medical upheaval not seen since the 1918 influenza pandemic. As of April 7th, the World Health… Read More

A study of the second HIV patient to undergo successful stem cell transplantation from donors with a HIV-resistant gene, finds that there was no active viral infection in the patient's blood… Read More

Source: https://pixabay.com/photos/science-lab-laboratory-research-1029385/ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay) is a technique used in labs to measure the levels of antigens or ant… Read More

Microbiological laboratories remain reliant on the accurate determination of the number of colony forming units (CFUs) on growth media; this is notwithstanding advances with rapid microbiolo… Read More

If you thought the human body was only made of human cells, then think again. What scientists now know is that for every one human cell in a healthy body there are about ten times as many mi… Read More

Scientists know that coronaviruses, including the SARS-CoV-19 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, can remain infectious for days -- or even longer -- in sewage and drinking water.Re… Read More

Microbiologists have discovered how the bacterium Acetobacterium woodii uses hydrogen in a kind of cycle to conserve energy. The bacterium lives in an environment without oxygen, and thanks… Read More

Scientists from the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Charité -- Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Thorax Clinic at Heidelberg University Hospital, whose collaboration is taking… Read More

The antimicrobial properties of silver have been known for centuries. While it is still a mystery as to exactly how silver kills bacteria, University of Arkansas researchers have taken a ste… Read More

Bacterial pathogens can live on surfaces for days. What if frequently touched surfaces such as doorknobs could instantly kill them off?Purdue University engineers have created a laser treatm… Read More

As things stand, an annual flu shot remains the norm. Designing the vaccine is complicated and this requires international collaboration, requiring a data review and working with other scien… Read More

Bio-based production of psilocybin has gained big interest and researchers have already proved small-scale production in E. coli. However, production in bacteria comes with a wide range of c… Read More

The U.S. FDA has produced a new guidance document: “Investigational COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma”.FDA is issuing this guidance to provide recommendations to health care providers… Read More

Scientists have found that two types of cells found in the nose are a mechanism that the SARS-CoV-2 virus uses as a means to enter the body and trigger an infection. Significantly, nasal swa… Read More

Nosopharm, specialized in exploring unconventional sources of antibiotics to discover new drugs to fight antimicrobial resistance, today announces it has been granted a US patent for NOSO-50… Read More

ISO 22367, Medical laboratories – Application of risk management to medical laboratories, specifies a process for a medical laboratory to identify and manage the risk to patients and s… Read More

Image Source: Pixabay According to a 2019 report from the CDC, nearly 1 million Americans die each year from heart disease or stroke. It is also estimated that nearly 300 people die, every d… Read More

Scientists have described a class of cells that preferentially support latent infection by HIV. These cells are characterized by a surface protein called CD127 and are found in tissues such… Read More

Surface sampling is an essential part of environmental monitoring. But how reliable are the methods and what are they actually informing about the number of organisms attached to different s… Read More

University of Otago researchers have contributed to an international study which helps improve the understanding of bacteria and viruses.The study reveals how bacterial immune systems can be… Read More

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Researchers have identified a distinct collection of bacteria found in the gut that may contribute to and predict the development of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), according to new r… Read More

In search of new ways to sequence human genomes and read critical alterations in DNA, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have successfully used the gene cutting tool CRISPR to ma… Read More

The European Union Medical Device Directives (MDD) 93/42/EEC will transition to the Medical Device Regulation (MDR) 2017/745 on 26 May 2020.  New changes stemming from the transition es… Read More

New FDA guidance provides recommendations to applicants seeking licensure under section 351(k) of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act of a proposed biosimilar or proposed interchangeable bio… Read More

Shortly after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) installed the water dispenser aboard the ISS in 2009, periodic sampling showed that two bacteria, Burkholderia cepacia… Read More

Contaminated flexible endoscopes are the medical devices occasionally associated with outbreaks of health care-associated infection. To minimise the risk, effective cleaning and disinfection… Read More

Scientists generate dark-field images by fitting standard microscopes with often costly components to illumine the sample stage with a hollow, highly angled cone of light. When a translucent… Read More

Eating a Mediterranean diet for a year boosts the types of gut bacteria linked to 'healthy' ageing, while reducing those associated with harmful inflammation in older people, indicates a fiv… Read More

A team of Cambridge scientists working on the intersection between biology and computation has found that random gene activity helps patterns form during development of a model multicellular… Read More

ICH has published a new document: “Guideline on reproductive toxicology: Detection of Toxicity to Reproduction for Human Pharmaceuticals” [ICH S5 (R3)]The purpose of this documen… Read More

The section on International collaboration on GMP inspections has been updated in regard to manufacturers of sterile medicines. EMA and its European and international partners have launched… Read More

EDQM has published a guidance for the qualification of Atomic Absorption / Atomic Emission Spectrometers.The document is the tenth Annex of the core document “Qualification of Equipmen… Read More

A new text has been issued, designed to help identify and ameliorate fungal and mold problems and contains a wealth of information as a guide and reference. Many topics are discussed relevan… Read More

Annex 21 to the EU-GMP Guidelines has been published as a draft (on 20thMarch 2020), titled "Importation of medicinal Products". The Annex is aimed at Manufacturing and Importation Authorisa… Read More

The Aurum Institute and its partners, as part of the IMPAACT4TB project, have announced that five high-burden TB countries will roll out a new, shorter drug regimen (known as 3HP) to prevent… Read More

Graphite nanoplatelets integrated into plastic medical surfaces can prevent infections, killing 99.99 per cent of bacteria which try to attach – a cheap and viable potential solution t… Read More

Biologists at the University of California San Diego are drawing parallels from newly developed models of the common fruit fly to help lay the foundation for novel therapies to fight the pat… Read More

The novel human coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has become a global health concern causing severe respiratory tract infections in humans. Human-to-human transmissions have been described, probably vi… Read More

To stop the spread of disease, it could be used to coat phone screens and keyboards, as well as the inside of catheters and breathing tubes, which are a major source of healthcare-associated… Read More

There is a regulatory expectation for use of genotypic identification methods for certain types of isolates from pharmaceutical manufacturing events (such as media fill or sterility test fai… Read More

Researchers from Cornell University, the Mars Global Food Safety Center in Beijing, and the University of Georgia have developed a method for completing whole-genome sequencing to determine… Read More

People who rate themselves as highly knowledgeable about a new infectious disease threat could also be more likely to believe they don't know enough, a new study suggests.In the case of this… Read More

Antibiotics can make easy work of infections. But how do they affect the complex ecosystems of friendly bacteria that make up our microbiome?New work led by Ludington and Stanford University… Read More

Bacteria can perceive how many they are. They release and sense signaling molecules that accumulate with increasing cell numbers, which allows them to change their behavior when a certain gr… Read More

EU GMP Annex 1 is the primary document governing the manufacture, control and release of sterile pharmaceutical products (both terminally sterilised and aseptically filled medicines). The An… Read More

New guidance from the EMA has been published in March 2020. This guideline provides a framework to facilitate the management of post-approval Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) chan… Read More

A new book of interest has been published: Pharmaceutical Microbiological Quality Assurance and Control: A guide for non-sterile manufacturing, edited by David Roesti and Marcel Goverde… Read More