Topic: Microbiology

Lagoon gets all-clear after sewage spill

San Mateo County health officials have sounded the all-clear for users of Redwood Shores Lagoon — two weeks after some 48,000 gallons of sewage...

2 Md. Residents Contract Legionella At Center

Frederick County officials say two residents at an assisted living center have contracted Legionella, a bacterium that causes Legionnaires' ...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease that is currently estimated to affect one-third of the world's population. . . Many of today's TB...

House-Sharing With Microbes

Household dust contains up to 1000 different species of microbes, with tens of millions of individual bacterial cells in each gram. And these are...

2 contract Legionella at assisted living facility

Two residents of Tranquility Assisted Living Center in Frederick contracted Legionella, a bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease, before water...

On the trail of a killer blow

Michael Wilson has been in New Zealand only two months and he already has a pretty good routine going. . . "I have a quick cup of coffee first...

Tractor Beams Come To Life

Jamie is helping bring our childhood fantasies/nightmares to life with a link that says "Andrei Rhode, a researcher involved with the project, said...
Yeast could be a powerful ally in the discovery of new therapeutic drugs to treat Parkinson's disease says a scientist presenting his work at the...
Researchers at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California are developing a filter that rapidly kills bacteria in water. The researchers hope...
Treating intensive care patients who develop life-threatening bacterial infections, or septicemia, with insulin potentially could reduce their...