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Posted on 02.27.25
Rare Disease Day: Listeriosis
Rare Disease Day was first established in 2008 to raise awareness for those diseases that are overlooked. Globally, there are over 300 million people living with a rare disease. There are over 100 countries participating in Rare Disease Day...
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Posted on 01.07.25
CRISPR brings color to microbial genetics
CRISPR-based technologies have changed the way of performing bacterial genetics, helping to elucidate many aspects of genome editing. Researchers at Aix Marseille University in France have developed a new subset of fluorescence-based CRISPR...
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Posted on 12.26.24
Joyful Agar Art
Agar art is created using living microorganisms in a petri dish. Naturally colorful microbes or even genetically modified ones can be used for the canvas. For the past 10 years, ASM (American Society for Microbiology) has held the annual...
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Posted on 11.13.24
Designed with your cells in mind: Antimicrobials and research tools for cell culture
If you are doing cell culture, it is important to keep your cultures clean and free from contamination. Contaminants can be chemical, such as impurities from media and reagent components, water sources, cleaning agents, detergents etc....