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Enterococcus faecalis can on pass its antibiotic resistant genes.
While some viruses make us sick, others can fight against bacteria, or protect us from more harmful viruses.
Food safety is in the news again, this tiime after reported deaths from listeria after eating smoked salmon. Here’s what we know so far and what you can do to cut your chance of getting sick.
Traditional water quality test results tell you what was happening at the beach yesterday. More real-time answers can be a boon for public health.
Polio can be circulating through a community long before anyone is paralyzed. Monitoring sewage for the virus lets public health officials short-circuit this ‘silent transmission.’
These single-celled organisms naturally respond to the Earth’s weak magnetic field. Scientists are untangling how it all works, looking to future biomedical and other engineering applications.
Canada’s female scientists are superstars in their fields yet most Canadians have never heard of them. On International Day for Women in Science, it’s time to give them the recognition they deserve.
Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) was a courageous scholar whose remarkable work on the role of symbiosis in evolution stands as a magisterial contribution of science.
Why are some animals resistant to waterborne disease? A reader wants to know.
Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is your friend.
It helped them conquer the world, three billion years ago.
Humans play host to many little passengers. Right now, you’re incubating, shedding or have already been colonised by viral, bacterial, parasitic or fungal microorganisms - perhaps even all of them.
Tularemia is an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans. While it can be fatal, it is rare in Australia and can be treated with antibiotics.
When commemorating our troops, doctors and nurses this Anzac Day, consider also tipping your hat to the discovery of bacteriophages. In the post-antibiotic era, our health might just depend on them.
Long viewed simply as ‘germs,’ the hidden half of nature turns out to be crucial to the health of people and plants.
The federal government is tackling antimicrobial resistance with a ‘One Health’ approach. But what is One Health and what can it offer that other approaches haven’t?
The answer – fewer than are in a banana – has implications for the study of human health and raises questions about what generates complexity anyway.
How slow diagnosis of bacterial infections is exacerbating our antibiotics problem.
The vast majority of the bacteria that surround us are not free-floating but prefer to band together in cooperative communities called biofilms. How do biofilms form and cooperate?
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Professor of Microbiology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Professor and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University
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Regents' Professor & Chair, Medical Laboratory Science, Texas State University
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Senior Lecturer in Biology, Brunel University London
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Ph.D. Candidate in Microbiology, Cornell University
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(Formerly) Senior Research Specialist, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Protozoology, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer Veterinary Microbiology, University of Adelaide
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Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington
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Professor of Biology, University of Portsmouth
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Director at the Methodist Hospital Research Institute
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Planetary Scientist, Queensland University of Technology
