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Microbiology
Microbiology: the study of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, archaea, fungi and protozoa. This discipline includes fundamental research on the biochemistry, physiology, cell biology, ecology, evolution and clinical aspects of microorganisms, including the host response to these agents. Microbiologists often rely on molecular biology tools such as DNA sequence based identification, example 16s rRNA gene sequence used for bacteria identification.
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JAN 07, 2025Clinical & Molecular DX
New technologies like wastewater surveillance have enabled public health officials to monitor the spread of infectious d ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 06, 2025Earth & The Environment
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are already directly responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people every y ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 05, 2025Microbiology
This story, like the virus it is about, continues to evolve. This article summarizes some of the recent findings and opi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 05, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
There is mounting evidence that links neurodegenerative diseases and viral infections, such as the association between m ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 31, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
In late November 2024, the World Health Organization was alerted to a serious public health crisis in a region of the Co ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 31, 2024Microbiology
Image courtesy of Ren Dodge/Carnegie Science shows Lactobacillus (red) in a certain part of the fruit fly gastrointestin ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 27, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
Clinicians may soon be able to use a fingerprint to determine whether a tuberculosis patient has taken the proper antibi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 26, 2024Microbiology
Could getting a vaccine one day be as simple as applying an inexpensive skin cream? New research reported in Nature has ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 23, 2024Earth & The Environment
Two new studies have outlined new ways to capture small amounts of carbon, and which could be scalable for larger applic ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 22, 2024Microbiology
The trillions of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, known as the gut microbiome, have a major impact on human healt ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 20, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Some species of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei can a serious and deadly illness caused sleeping sickness. These parasit ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 18, 2024Microbiology
In recent decades, scientists have revealed the importance of the human microbiome - the vast community of microbes that ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 17, 2024Microbiology
Some viruses only infect bacterial cells; they are known as bacteriophages, and they have real potential to defeat antib ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 12, 2024Microbiology
Urological diseases such as urinary tract infections (UTI) and kidney stones are a serious burden and are considered the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 11, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
The World Health Organization is investigating a mysterious illness now known as Disease X, which has sickened hundreds ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 11, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Image © S. Ahmerkamp/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology shows a newly found endosymbiontWritten By: Carmen LeitchDEC 08, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
A rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) has been approved for the first time by the World Health Organization (WHO ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 05, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have used a mouse model to show that infections in the intestine can change the composition of bile, a fluid ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 03, 2024Microbiology
Compared to other large primates, humans have unusually big brains. Now, scientists have suggested that the large size o ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 02, 2024Microbiology
Ribosomes are crucial to cells, because they translate messenger RNA molecules into the proteins that are necessary for ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 27, 2024Microbiology
Archaea are microorganisms that were only discovered in the 1970s, and about which scientists still have a lot to learn. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 25, 2024Earth & The Environment
Everything on Earth and made on Earth is awash in microbial contamination, which persists through intense decontaminatio ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 25, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
The significance of the human gut microbiome, a vast community of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, has been known ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 24, 2024Microbiology
For many years, scientists have known that the Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), which causes cold sores, can take up resi ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
JAN 07, 2025
Clinical & Molecular DX
New technologies like wastewater surveillance have enabled public health officials to monitor the spread of infectious d
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 06, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are already directly responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people every y
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 05, 2025
Microbiology
This story, like the virus it is about, continues to evolve. This article summarizes some of the recent findings and opi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 05, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
There is mounting evidence that links neurodegenerative diseases and viral infections, such as the association between m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 31, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
In late November 2024, the World Health Organization was alerted to a serious public health crisis in a region of the Co
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 31, 2024
Microbiology
Image courtesy of Ren Dodge/Carnegie Science shows Lactobacillus (red) in a certain part of the fruit fly gastrointestin
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 27, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
Clinicians may soon be able to use a fingerprint to determine whether a tuberculosis patient has taken the proper antibi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 26, 2024
Microbiology
Could getting a vaccine one day be as simple as applying an inexpensive skin cream? New research reported in Nature has
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 23, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Two new studies have outlined new ways to capture small amounts of carbon, and which could be scalable for larger applic
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 22, 2024
Microbiology
The trillions of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, known as the gut microbiome, have a major impact on human healt
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 20, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Some species of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei can a serious and deadly illness caused sleeping sickness. These parasit
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 18, 2024
Microbiology
In recent decades, scientists have revealed the importance of the human microbiome - the vast community of microbes that
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 17, 2024
Microbiology
Some viruses only infect bacterial cells; they are known as bacteriophages, and they have real potential to defeat antib
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 12, 2024
Microbiology
Urological diseases such as urinary tract infections (UTI) and kidney stones are a serious burden and are considered the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 11, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
The World Health Organization is investigating a mysterious illness now known as Disease X, which has sickened hundreds
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 11, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Image © S. Ahmerkamp/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology shows a newly found endosymbiont
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 08, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
A rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) has been approved for the first time by the World Health Organization (WHO
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 05, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have used a mouse model to show that infections in the intestine can change the composition of bile, a fluid
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 03, 2024
Microbiology
Compared to other large primates, humans have unusually big brains. Now, scientists have suggested that the large size o
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 02, 2024
Microbiology
Ribosomes are crucial to cells, because they translate messenger RNA molecules into the proteins that are necessary for
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 27, 2024
Microbiology
Archaea are microorganisms that were only discovered in the 1970s, and about which scientists still have a lot to learn.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 25, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Everything on Earth and made on Earth is awash in microbial contamination, which persists through intense decontaminatio
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 25, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
The significance of the human gut microbiome, a vast community of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, has been known
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 24, 2024
Microbiology
For many years, scientists have known that the Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), which causes cold sores, can take up resi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch