Stopping infections might seem impossible, but it is quite simple. Every organism has six “links” upon which the chain of infection can be broken; breaking any link helps to ensure microbial ...

Like a poison pen, dying cells prick their neighbors with a lethal message. This may worsen sepsis, Vijay Rathinam and colleagues in the UConn School of Medicine report in the Jan. 23 issue of Cell.

This number lags far behind the three million-plus cases of infection detected by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, highlighting the difficulty in containing the spread of the virus and ...