Researchers have successfully trialed two new qPCR assays to help detect the presence of transmissible AMR using water and wastewater samples. The scientists present a DNA-based testing method that provides a surrogate for monitoring AMR, which will make AMR screening cheaper and more accessible around the world.

The extinct Japanese wolf is not the direct ancestor of dogs but its DNA shows it is more closely related to those ancestors than any other wolves yet found

What if we could identify proteins as easily as we can sequence DNA and RNA? Perhaps soon we will, thanks to new DNA Nanoswitch Calipers. DNA Calipers create a unique 'fingerprint' for peptides (the building blocks of proteins) by repeatedly applying force to them to generate a series of distance measurements for each peptide. This innovation opens up a new avenue for pursuing the goal of single-cell proteomics, and enables potentially life-saving discoveries in human health and disease.

Aisha Yerima, who was kidnapped aged 21, tells of her time living with militants in Nigeria.

More than 100 people gathered in Michigan to pray for the safe release of a local family among 17 members of a missionary group kidnapped by a gang in Haiti

One of Haiti's most powerful gangs -- the 400 Mawozo -- is believed to be behind the kidnapping of 17 American and Canadian missionaries, a source in the Caribbean country's security forces told CNN Sunday.

The kidnapped group includes five children, according to a statement by the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries on Sunday.