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Posted on 12.17.25
Make way for merry microbes
Agar art, created using living microbes in a petri dish, is a great way to show off your model research strains . The annual Agar Art Contest has been hosted by the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) for over 10 years. Entri...
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Posted on 12.10.25
Gentamicin protection assay used to study bacterial escape artists
Persistent Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection causes a variety of gastrointestinal diseases and can even cause gastric cancer. Normally, host cells use a mechanism called autophagy for cell homeostasis. This mechanism tran...
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Posted on 11.05.25
Help mitigate antimicrobial resistance with susceptibility testing
Recent data from the World Health Organization (WHO) finds that an astounding one in six lab-confirmed human bacterial infections are resistant to antibiotics. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant global threat. On...
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Posted on 10.01.25
Spooky microbes be gone! Popular antimicrobials for contamination control
Contamination is scary, especially when you have devoted countless hours on your cell cultures only to find unwanted biological contaminants in your research material. Moreover, contamination can negatively affect cell growth and over...