Microbiologists at the University of California, Davis who analyzed swabs taken by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) and compared them with samples from homes on earth as well as the ...

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is continuing its sampling plan and has published updates for the 2025 fiscal year. The plan is designed to leverage technological and sampling advances ...

Good preservation and storage are essential to preserving microorganisms’ genetic material in microbial communities from a wide array of sample inputs and accurately represent the bacterial ...

Genetic testing of saliva samples identifies the SARS-CoV-2 virus more quickly than testing of nasal swabs. The research is published March 21 in Microbiology Spectrum, a journal of the American ...

Twenty-six subjects from a cohort of 80 tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 via nasopharyngeal swab, and all 26 tested positive using gargle lavage (mouthwash), according to new research. Twenty-six ...