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Category Archives: Clinical and Medical Microbiology
Microbe Talk: When a Scratch Can Kill
Last week, the ExCeL arena in London hosted New Scientist Live, a huge festival of science and technology. During the event the Microbiology Society collaborated with the Biochemical Society to organise a panel discussion about the problem of antimicrobial resistance … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Podcast
Tagged AMR, antibiotic resistance, New Scientist
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From space to stomach ulcers
Could a machine for detecting molecules in space be used to identify bacteria that cause stomach ulcers? This is the question that Dr Geraint ‘Taff’ Morgan and his colleagues, Professors Ejaz Huq and Phil Prewett, from Oxford MicroMedical Ltd are … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Technology
Tagged Comet, ESA, European Space Agency, space
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Microbe Talk Extra: Handwashing and Healthcare-associated Infections
Every year, hundreds of millions of patients across the world are affected by Healthcare-associated Infections, according to estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO). These infections can result from a surgery, or from the use of a medical device like … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Podcast
Tagged Hand washing, Hospital-acquired infections, WHO
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What is CRISPR-Cas?
CRISPR-Cas is making headlines as a powerful new gene editing tool that could change the whole of biology. Scientists are already using CRISPR to introduce genes for disease resistance into crops, insert malaria blocking genes into mosquitoes, and remove HIV … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Technology, Video
Tagged Cas, CRISPR, CRISPR-Cas, Disease, DNA, gene editing, genetics, stop motion
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Vaccines: From the cowshed to the clinic
Vaccines are an essential component of public health, keeping people safe against disease. But how do they work, how are they manufactured and what are the challenges involved? We spoke to Dr Sarah Gilbert from the Jenner Institute to find … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, History of Science, Virology
Tagged cowpox, Ebola, Edward, immune system, immunity, inoculation, Jenner, smallpox, trials, Vaccination, vaccines, variolation, Zika
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Can we model how viruses move between species?
Dr Ben Longdon from the University of Cambridge is presenting his work on emerging viruses at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference today (24 March). He may have found the key to predicting which viruses will emerge to cause severe illness … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Microbiology, Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Virology
Tagged chimpanzee, Ebola, host shift, human, MERS, primates, SARS, virus
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Old, deep and close to home: the places that scientists are looking for new drugs
Many of the drugs we use in hospitals – antibiotics, antifungals and anti-cancer drugs, to name but a few – are produced by bacteria that live in the soil beneath our feet. Most of the antibiotics we use were discovered … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Microbiology, Clinical and Medical Microbiology
Tagged Antibiotics, ants, bioprospecting, cats, Desert, Golf, Marine sponge, soil
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Revisiting the Ancientbiotics project
It was this time last year at the Annual Conference that Dr Freya Harrison from the University of Nottingham gave a talk about the rediscovery she and her colleagues made of a 1,000-year-old Anglo-Saxon treatment for eye infections. A year … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, History of Science
Tagged Ancientbiotics, MRSA, Nottingham
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Mapping the microbes in your mouth
Scientists from the Forsyth Institute have managed to visualise communities of bacteria in the human mouth, showing their spatial organisation for the first time in “microbial maps”. The maps could help scientists understand the interactions between different oral bacteria and … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Microbial Evolution and Diversity
Tagged bacteria, cauliflower, fluorescence, hedgehog, imaging, maps, Microbiome, mouth, plaque, teeth
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Surfer bums and antibiotic resistant bacteria
Are surfers at greater risk of being colonised by antibiotic resistant bacteria? Anne Leonard, a PhD student at the University of Exeter Medical School, is trying to find out. Anne is part of a research team led by Dr William Gaze … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Video
Tagged AMR, Antibiotics, bacteria, beach, bum, E. coli, resistance, surfing
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