Nature – Pathogens
- Understanding the biology of monkeypox virus to prevent future outbreaks May 9, 2024
- Characteristics of drug resistance mutations in ART-experienced HIV-1 patients with low-level viremia in Zhengzhou City, China May 9, 2024
- Students can encourage their grandparents to vaccinate May 9, 2024
- A meta-analysis on global change drivers and the risk of infectious disease May 8, 2024
- Predicting vaccine effectiveness for mpox May 8, 2024
Nature – AMR
- Colostrum as a source of ESBL-Escherichia coli in feces of newborn calves April 30, 2024
- Evolution of triclosan resistance modulates bacterial permissiveness to multidrug resistance plasmids and phages April 30, 2024
- Ecological and evolutionary mechanisms driving within-patient emergence of antimicrobial resistance April 30, 2024
- Genotypic analyses of IncHI2 plasmids from enteric bacteria April 29, 2024
- A secondary mechanism of action for triazole antifungals in Aspergillus fumigatus mediated by hmg1 April 29, 2024
Outbreaks
- Measles global outbreak continues to spread April 16, 2024
- Dad goes Viral on TikTok: Daughter has Pinworms April 16, 2024
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Doing what we love, be it work or snacking!
Contributed by Robin Jones I have a great job! I get to work in a research lab at a top University. I get to rub shoulders with people who are making the world a safer place and with young people … Continue reading
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Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA)
Contributed by Poyin Chen Scientific research is slowly but surely moving away from one gene-one organism focus. We now understand that individual genes are only a small part of a whole, just as a single organism is only a small … Continue reading
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Forensic Science and Microbiome
Contributed by Ning Chin Forensic science is the use of science to settle a legal argument. In criminal cases, a forensic technique is used to definitively identify the victim and the perpetrator. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that is present in most … Continue reading
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The Importance of Small Molecules in Biological Systems
Contributed by Narine Arabyan Metabolomics is a newly blooming and rapidly expanding field that combines the sciences of biology, chemistry, mathematics, and computer technology. Metabolomics is the study of metabolites or small molecules inside the cells and biological systems. This … Continue reading
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California has set the strictest antibiotics standards
Contributed by Nguyet Kong California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that set the strictest antibiotics standards in the United States for the use with livestock production from chickens to cows. This bill will go into effect in 2018, so … Continue reading
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Avian Influenza Breakouts in Southern China during the Winter Season
Contributed by Carol Huang On January 14th, 2016, the Health and Family Planning Commission of Guangdong Province, China, has reported an additional two human cases of avian influenza A (H7N9). Human infection with H7N9 flu virus, however, causes serious respiratory symptoms … Continue reading
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Norovirus
Contributed by Poyin Chen California is currently experiencing an outbreak of Norovirus. This nasty little virus, also known as the winter vomiting disease, infects via contact with infected surfaces or people and wreaks havoc on the digestive system. Norovirus infections … Continue reading
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Happy New Year !!
Contributed by Robin Jones It’s New Year’s Eve! As a child I couldn’t wait to see if I could stay awake long enough to celebrate the turning of the clock from 11:59 pm to 12:00 am. I would always have 1 party … Continue reading
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Regulation with WGS – The Wild West has Returned
Contributed by Bart Weimer Ph.D. WGS is becoming the method of choice for food safety outbreak and surveillance. The US CDC, US FDA, and the EU CDC (ECDC) have all announced that they will transition from pervious typing methods and … Continue reading
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Immunotherapy
Contributed by Carol Huang The recent news about former president Jimmy Carter’s cancer has stopped spreading and is “responding well to treatment,” has drawn great attention to immunotherapy. Carter, 91, announced in August that four spots of cancer, melanoma had … Continue reading
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