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December 15, 2021Posted: December 15, 2021Read MoreWill Releasing Genetically Modified Mosquitos Finally Conquer Malaria?
For the first time, scientists have shown that a new kind of genetic engineering, known as a "gene drive," can crash populations of malaria-spreading mosquitoes.
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November 08, 2021Posted: November 08, 2021Read MorePlastic is invaluable to the scientific community from Petri plates to syringes and almost everything in between. Scientific research alone accounts for approximately 1.8% of global plastic production.(1) With the COVID-19 pandemic the need of the scientific community is increasing due to the increased need for plastic used for PPE, plastic tubes, pipets, etc.(2) While plastic use is vital for many...
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September 13, 2021Posted: September 13, 2021Read MoreHans Christian Gram, credited as the inventor of the Gram staining technique, was a pioneering biologist who devised the system of classification which led to as many as 30,000 formally named species of bacteria being investigated. Gram, working with German pathologist and microbiologist Karl Friedländer, devised the technique in Berlin in the early 1880s.
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September 07, 2021Posted: September 07, 2021Read MoreIs a New and Better Vaccine Coming Soon?
A new player in the field of COVID vaccines could be arriving soon. The trials so far are encouraging for both safety and efficacy. It even has some advantages over the Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J vaccines that have become so familiar to us.
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June 16, 2021Posted: June 16, 2021Read MoreMedieval doctors didn’t always prescribe what was best for an ailing patient (leeches were a popular therapy). However, a medical manuscript from the 10th Century called Bald’s Leechbook recently found in the British Library details a concoction of wine, oxbile, and two species of Allium (garlic, onion, or leek) used to treat styes, now known as an infection caused by Staphylococcus aureus...
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November 19, 2020Posted: November 19, 2020Read MoreSaving Patient Lives with Rapid Pneumonia Testing
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August 13, 2020Posted: August 13, 2020Read MoreCBD: How Pet Parents are Leading the Pack -The current landscape for pets and medical cannabis products In America, around 70% of households own a pet. This means that roughly 90.5 million families have welcomed a four legged (or maybe feathered) friend into their homes. (Rainwalk...
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April 13, 2020Posted: April 13, 2020Read MoreBacteria are becoming more resistant to drugs while pharmaceutical companies are slowing their antibiotic research. Due to low profits and high time consumption, there are fewer drugs discovered and manufactured by drug companies.(1) Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), and multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections...
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March 06, 2020Posted: March 06, 2020Read MoreDue to the recent 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, we have
been getting many inquiries about what type of swabs, media, and kits
should be used for COVID-19 sample collection prior to testing. Below we
have a short guide on which COPAN products meet the Centers for Disease
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February 21, 2020Posted: February 21, 2020Read MoreAccording to the USGS, the Earth's surface is comprised of about 71% water (1); however, only a modicum of this supply is potable. Fortunately, modern marvels of mankind are making this supply increasingly accessible through the desalination of salt water and filtration of contaminated water, to name a few. Unlike salt water, the consumption of contaminated drinking water is a major cause for outbreaks...
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January 16, 2020Posted: January 16, 2020Read MoreAntibiotic resistance has been an emerging critical threat that, according to the CDC, results in more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections in the U.S each year, of which 35,000 are fatal (1).
To date, most every antibiotic at our disposal has been discovered in the dirt; these compounds exist as natural products that...
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September 04, 2019Posted: September 04, 2019Read MoreIn total silence, a nearly
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March 28, 2019Posted: March 28, 2019Read MoreArt masterpieces should be protected from
microbial damages by applying preventive action.Although human occupancy is known as the main source
of airborne bacteria and molds in closed environments like hospitals and schools,
art masterpieces in museums are often
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February 12, 2018Posted: February 12, 2018Read MoreAntibiotic development has had its challenges recently; and while the concern of drug-resistant Gram-negative has been vastly described since the past couple of decades, there is a growing light at the end of the tunnel with the recent approval of the broad spectrum antimicrobials between 2015-17. Even more encouraging is the potential regulatory filing and approval of several antimicrobial candidates...
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January 19, 2018Posted: January 19, 2018Read More
A new device called the iChip, short for isolation chip, may unlock the potential to culture the majority of microbes that still remain undiscovered.So far, standard microbiology culture methods have only been able to grow about 1% of microbial species in vitro on synthetic media (1). Beginning in 2002, the iChip was designed...
