Intbiotechnologies, LLC

12/07/2015

12/04/2015

A next-generation urine sample collection tube contains an innovative additive that effectively stabilizes bacterial count for up to 48 hours at room temperature, enabling more reliable clinical diagnosis and research.

11/24/2015

Scientists in the U.S. say they've created a new strain of mosquito that could eventually help eradicate malaria.

11/16/2015

Reconstructing Laboratory Systems: How to Rebuild in Ebola-Affected Countries As the world’s most devastating Ebola epidemic draws to a close, governments and local institutions are looking to the future. Emerging from the urgent task of crisis management, experts are asking what steps can be taken…

11/10/2015

Of all global manufacturing output, only 1.5 percent comes from Africa. And when it comes to ease of doing business, most African nations still find themselves on the bottom of the rankings. But with...

11/04/2015

Malaria Operational Plan

11/03/2015

Unless there is a major shift in the way the world fights tuberculosis -- from a reliance on biomedical solutions to an approach that combines biomedical interventions with social actions -- the epidemic and drug resistance will worsen, say researchers.

10/21/2015

Scientists have created a protein that awakens resting immune cells infected with HIV and facilitates their destruction in laboratory studies. The protein potentially could contribute to a cure for HIV infection by helping deplete the reservoir of long-lived, latently HIV-infected cells that can sta…

10/19/2015

When a pathogen invades the body, specific cells in the human immune system are ready to take immediate action in order to destroy it, but the molecular characteristics of these killer cells were unknown until recently.

09/29/2015

USAID's Vision for Health Systems Strengthening

Traditionally, USAID’s HSS efforts have been incorporated into our specifi c disease programs for such health challenges as HIV and AIDs, tuberculosis, and malaria. To elevate this work, USAID now issues this, our first-ever HSS vision statement – USAID’s Vision for Health Systems Strengthening – fo…

09/07/2015

Researchers have documented the accuracies of three new tests for more rapidly diagnosing drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis (TB), which are much harder and more expensive to treat and which, experts say, represent a major threat to global public health.