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Microplastics Could Be Making Bacteria Resistant to Antibiotics
Researchers at Boston University have found that microplastics (MPs) provide an ideal platform for bacteria to form ...
Will this Chinese-engineered ‘bacterial assassin’ transform cancer treatment?
Synthetic ‘kill switch’ could fast track new immunotherapies, turning bacterial armies against cancer tumours, study shows.
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Ticks carrying Lyme disease may have infiltrated Montana; found on bird dog
BILLINGS — A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme disease — the most common disease spread by ticks in the United States, estimated ...
The Best Home Water Quality Test Kits I Tried to See What Was in My Tap
The first is essentially a DIY rapid at-home test with paper testing strips to dip into your water and compare results to an ...
A shot in the arm: Swetha Sivakumar writes on the penicillin pushers
The discovery of the original antibiotic remains one of the most remarkable success stories in medicine. So why do we know only half the tale?
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The Renaissance of Pickling and Fermentation at Home
Your kitchen counter can become a bustling lab of bubbling jars and exciting experiments. The growing trend of home pickling ...
New CRISPR-based diagnostic test detects pathogens in blood without amplification
Bioengineering professor and The Grainger College of Engineering's Dean, Rashid Bashir, led a team of researchers in a ...
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Over 40,000 new gut microbes discovered in African populations
More than 40,000 previously unknown gut microbes in African populations could completely change how medicines work for ...