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Antimicrobial
Antimicrobial: an agent that kills microorganisms or stops their growth.
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APR 10, 2022Microbiology
There is growing concern about whether our antibiotics can keep pace with the threats posed by new and emerging bacteria ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 30, 2022Clinical & Molecular DX
Strategies to Improve Your Lab’s Blood Culture Process A blood culture is a routine laboratory test in which blood ...Sponsored By: bioMérieux IncMAR 23, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
Organisms from plants to fungi to animals also need copper for normal health. Copper is involved in several basic biolog ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 22, 2022Health & Medicine
With modern amenities and luxuries, it's easy to be unaware of just how much we may neglect the outdoors and its hea ...Written By: Alexandria BassMAR 15, 2022Clinical & Molecular DX
There are many challenges facing our healthcare system today, but sepsis is undeniably one of the most significant. Seps ...Sponsored By: bioMérieux IncMAR 09, 2022Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance is already a major threat to public health; in 2019 alone, antibiotic resistant bacterial infectio ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 03, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
There's a microbial arms race going on all around us, and bacteria have devised some sneaky ways to compete with other c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 26, 2022Health & Medicine
A century ago before effective antibiotics were available, tuberculosis patients were placed outside on sunny days becau ...Written By: Alexandria BassFEB 10, 2022Immunology
We live in harmony with around 200 trillion microorganisms that make up the human microbiome. These friendly microbes he ...Written By: Tara FernandesFEB 08, 2022Health & Medicine
Although the more dominant and well-known terpenes like limonene and myrcene receive more research attention, several pa ...Written By: Kerry CharronFEB 08, 2022Immunology
Tumors have a sneaky strategy of becoming resistant to chemotherapy drugs—they have a way of “pumping ...Written By: Tara FernandesJAN 27, 2022Cannabis Sciences
For many years, antibiotic resistance has been urgently rising as a globally-significant public health concern. More rec ...Written By: Nadine HusamiJAN 26, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
The gut microbiome is crucial to human health, but the human body has to keep the microorganisms within it in check. We ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 25, 2022Clinical & Molecular DX
In 1945, Sir Alexander Fleming (the microbiologist who discovered the world's first broadly effective antibio ...Written By: Tara FernandesJAN 22, 2022Microbiology
Antibiotic-resistant infections pose a serious threat to human health, which is expected to get worse. Bacterial infecti ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 05, 2022Genetics & Genomics
Researchers were assessing the presence of bacteria in wild hedgehogs which are found in Europe and New Zealand, and fou ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 03, 2022Technology
Plastic packaging. Everything we seem to buy nowadays is packaged in plastic, from toys, foods, and more. In fact, human ...Written By: Ryan VingumDEC 24, 2021Microbiology
Cheese doesn't have many ingredients, and while it doesn't contain preservatives, it does contain milk. So why doesn't i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 16, 2021Microbiology
About half of Americans have used at least one prescription drug at some point in the past thirty days, according to dat ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 09, 2021Microbiology
Microplastics pose a clear threat to the environment. They have been found nearly everywhere, from remote areas like the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 07, 2021Immunology
Strong chemical drugs used to obliterate all rapidly growing cells in the body have been used to treat cancer sin ...Written By: Tara FernandesDEC 06, 2021Microbiology
As pathogenic bacteria continue to evolve and find ways to evade common medications, researchers have been racing to dev ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 03, 2021Genetics & Genomics
The gene editing tool CRISPR was originally inspired by an immune defense system used by bacteria, and it's been adapted ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 29, 2021Genetics & Genomics
There are many bacterial organisms, and they can live cooperatively, or they can battle one another. They are also capab ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
APR 10, 2022
Microbiology
There is growing concern about whether our antibiotics can keep pace with the threats posed by new and emerging bacteria
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 30, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
Strategies to Improve Your Lab’s Blood Culture Process A blood culture is a routine laboratory test in which blood
...
Sponsored By:
bioMérieux Inc
MAR 23, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Organisms from plants to fungi to animals also need copper for normal health. Copper is involved in several basic biolog
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 22, 2022
Health & Medicine
With modern amenities and luxuries, it's easy to be unaware of just how much we may neglect the outdoors and its hea
...
Written By:
Alexandria Bass
MAR 15, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
There are many challenges facing our healthcare system today, but sepsis is undeniably one of the most significant. Seps
...
Sponsored By:
bioMérieux Inc
MAR 09, 2022
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance is already a major threat to public health; in 2019 alone, antibiotic resistant bacterial infectio
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 03, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
There's a microbial arms race going on all around us, and bacteria have devised some sneaky ways to compete with other c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 26, 2022
Health & Medicine
A century ago before effective antibiotics were available, tuberculosis patients were placed outside on sunny days becau
...
Written By:
Alexandria Bass
FEB 10, 2022
Immunology
We live in harmony with around 200 trillion microorganisms that make up the human microbiome. These friendly microbes he
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
FEB 08, 2022
Health & Medicine
Although the more dominant and well-known terpenes like limonene and myrcene receive more research attention, several pa
...
Written By:
Kerry Charron
FEB 08, 2022
Immunology
Tumors have a sneaky strategy of becoming resistant to chemotherapy drugs—they have a way of “pumping
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
JAN 27, 2022
Cannabis Sciences
For many years, antibiotic resistance has been urgently rising as a globally-significant public health concern. More rec
...
Written By:
Nadine Husami
JAN 26, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
The gut microbiome is crucial to human health, but the human body has to keep the microorganisms within it in check. We
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 25, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
In 1945, Sir Alexander Fleming (the microbiologist who discovered the world's first broadly effective antibio
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
JAN 22, 2022
Microbiology
Antibiotic-resistant infections pose a serious threat to human health, which is expected to get worse. Bacterial infecti
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 05, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers were assessing the presence of bacteria in wild hedgehogs which are found in Europe and New Zealand, and fou
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 03, 2022
Technology
Plastic packaging. Everything we seem to buy nowadays is packaged in plastic, from toys, foods, and more. In fact, human
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
DEC 24, 2021
Microbiology
Cheese doesn't have many ingredients, and while it doesn't contain preservatives, it does contain milk. So why doesn't i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 16, 2021
Microbiology
About half of Americans have used at least one prescription drug at some point in the past thirty days, according to dat
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 09, 2021
Microbiology
Microplastics pose a clear threat to the environment. They have been found nearly everywhere, from remote areas like the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 07, 2021
Immunology
Strong chemical drugs used to obliterate all rapidly growing cells in the body have been used to treat cancer sin
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 06, 2021
Microbiology
As pathogenic bacteria continue to evolve and find ways to evade common medications, researchers have been racing to dev
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 03, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
The gene editing tool CRISPR was originally inspired by an immune defense system used by bacteria, and it's been adapted
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 29, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
There are many bacterial organisms, and they can live cooperatively, or they can battle one another. They are also capab
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch