Microbiology
Wally Thompson is the Microbiology Supervisor at Gambro in Daytona Beach, Florida. Gambro is a global medical technology company, with manufacturing facilities in countries all over the world including Italy, Sweden, Germany, France, Korea, and China, that develops and manufactures products and therapies related to kidney diseases.
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You can't see them, or smell them or taste them. They can be in our water and in our food, multiplying so rapidly that conventional testing methods for...
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Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have discovered a new way to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria by using the bacteria's own genes. For more than 50 years, antibiotics have been used to treat a variety of...
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Without a host, a virus is a dormant package of proteins, genetic material and occasional lipids. Once inside a living cell, however, a virus can latch onto cell parts and spring into action - mutating, replicating and spreading into new cells.
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Right now, it looks a little like one of those plastic containers you might fill with gasoline when your car has run dry. But Scott Gallager is not headed to the nearest Mobil station. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) biologist has oth
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The four key criteria in selecting the right rapid microbial method share a common trait: a strong correlation to financial results. Without a strong value proposition, you simply wont have the support of your finance and operations management.
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The Amazon rainforest may be the largest reservoir of soil microbes on Earth, yet researchers acknowledge that many of these organisms are almost unknown to science, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist Klaus Nusslein.
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Iowa State University researchers have developed a technique for testing for the presence of salmonella that may give investigators better, faster answers.
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With the help of a squid that uses a luminescent bacterium to create a predator-fooling light organ and a fish that uses a different strain of the same species of bacteria like a flashlight to illuminate the dark nooks of the reefs where it lives, scientists have found that gaining a single gene is enough for the microbe to switch host animals.
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A potent combination of powerful new analysis methods and abundant data from genomics projects is carrying microbiology forward into a new era.
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A team of Princeton University scientists has discovered that chains of proteins found in most living organisms act like adaptive machines, possessing the ability to control their own evolution.
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Unprecedented changes in biodiversity have coincided with the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases around the world. To address this problem, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced $16 million in funding for eight projects.
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