New research has uncovered critical gaps in an emerging global public health tool for detecting environmental fecal ...

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1 Even more alarming is the increase in drug recalls due to microbial contamination ... tests for which it is used will fail." These methods are very time consuming, and must be done over a ...

Biofilms are clusters of microorganisms that stick to non-biological surfaces, such as rocks in a stream, as well as to surfaces on plants (roots) or in animals (epithelium). These clusters are ...

Join host Neil Lander as he welcomes Katy Rhynard, Associate Director of Laboratory Informatics at Gilead Sciences.

Feb. 6, 2025 — A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite that causes malaria in humans, has been generated. The ...

Pharmaceutical ads are difficult to avoid in American television programming and a growing number of them promote a class of medications called JAK inhibitors, using an acronym that assumes the ...

However, although knowledge has exponentially accumulated in recent years, few novel methods regarding the process of designing inoculants for agriculture have been presented. A recently introduced ...

Spore Density and Root Colonization of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi spores were extracted and counted using Daniels and Skipper (1982) method. A 0.5-g root sample was ...