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Examining Flint: New research highlights lack of legionella public policy
Why did cases of Legionnaires’ disease spike when the water source was changed for Flint, Michigan? We look at the scientific investigations into the cause, and how these data may influence a case around water safety policies.
Examining Flint: New research highlights lack of legionella public policy
From Poisoning to Pharmacy: A Tale of Two Ergots
Ergotism is a form of poisoning from ingesting grains infected by Claviceps purpurea. Learn how these infected grains have both healed and killed throughout history.
From Poisoning to Pharmacy: A Tale of Two Ergots
How to Train Your T Cell(s): The Hidden World
The prior decades of immunological research developed an array of tools and methods to uncover how our immune system protects against invading microbes. Now, the new wave of immunologists, including Dr. Belkaid, use those tools to uncover how our immune system cooperates with members of our microbiome.
How to Train Your T Cell(s): The Hidden World
If You Give a Baby a Bath, and More Microbial Myths
A followup to the “Microbial Myths” Youtube video that examines what the literature has to say about microwaving sponges, bathing newborns, and using Bunsen burners as a part of aseptic techniques at the bench.
If You Give a Baby a Bath, and More Microbial Myths
Invasive Fungal Infections: A Creeping Public Health Threat
Invasive fungal infections are collectively responsible for killing up to 1.5 million people each year, making this infection category one of the most deadly among communicable diseases, along with lower respiratory infections, tuberculosis and diarrheal diseases.
Invasive Fungal Infections: A Creeping Public Health Threat
Old Wives’ Tales and Garlic as an Antibiotic: Are Microbial Myths Fact or Fiction?
The history of “old wives” and how they supported their communities against disease and infection plus the history and science of garlic as an anti-microbial.
Old Wives’ Tales and Garlic as an Antibiotic: Are Microbial Myths Fact or Fiction?
Probing the Depths of Life
Microbes at the bottom of the sea don’t have sugar or sunlight. Instead, they harvest their energy from the unique chemistry of hydrothermal vents.
Probing the Depths of Life
Siderophores: A treatment target?
Iron is essential for many bacterial pathogens to cause disease so they often use siderophores to gather it. Researchers are attempting to exploit the siderophore as a treatment option by developing sideromycins, inhibitors, and even vaccines.
Siderophores: A treatment target?
Siderophores: Bacterial Swiss Army knives
Bacteria can use siderophores to increase their survival, to signal with other cells, and strike against other species.
Siderophores: Bacterial Swiss Army knives