Americans love their supplements, but some of the products are contaminated with heavy metals, bacteria and toxic fungi. The FDA has little control because of a law passed in 1994.
Combining design innovation methods with medical disciplines such as microbiology can help tackle health related challenges.
Increased scientific understanding of the role microbes play in humans and other animals has led to the development of probiotics to improve heath.
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Antibiotics aren’t a one-size-fits-all treatment – the one you had last time might not work on the infection you have at the moment. So how do doctors determine which one is likely to work?
Bacteriophages infecting a bacterial cell.
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New research is uncovering that whales have their own distinct microbiomes that may play important roles in animal health. But how do scientists study whale microbiomes?
People caught and died from plague long before it caused major epidemics like the Black Death in the middle ages. Could what scientists call cultural resistance be what kept the disease under control?
Keep those stinkers away!
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