by Nancy | 27 Dec 2015 | Media, Microbes, science
Researchers in the UK have developed a wound dressing that produces fluorescent light when it comes into contact with the toxins produced by a biofilm in which pathogenic bacteria are residing in the wound. The visual cue is supposedly helpful in starting antibiotic...
by Nancy | 25 Dec 2015 | Hospice, Media, Microbes, science
Some facts about the current Zika virus ‘outbreak’ in Brazil: A few deaths have been reported in people who had been diagnosed with dengue fever and who died due to worsening symptoms. These patients were shown post-mortem to be infected with Zika virus....
by Nancy | 8 Dec 2015 | Microbes, Photos, science
A short moment of WAUW! for this artist! Celebrating life’s diversity by creating micro organisms in paper form.. http://www.ufunk.net/en/artistes/rogan-brown/ The image above comes from http://www.ufunk.net/en/artistes/rogan-brown/
by Nancy | 10 Oct 2015 | Microbes, Molecular Biology, science
The challenge in detecting a set of viruses simultaneously in clinical samples lies in the large variety of their genomes, i.e. there is no gene that is present in all viruses. With the advent of new sequencing technologies, including high throughput parallel sequence...
by Nancy | 2 Sep 2015 | Microbes, Molecular Biology, science
MIME (Mutational Interference Mapping Experiment) is used to investigate the interaction of RNA with its respective interaction partners in greater detail. In this approach, the RNA of interest is randomly mutated and amplified. The vast pool of resulting mutated RNAs...
by Nancy | 28 Aug 2015 | Microbes, science
Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is a single stranded RNA virus that belongs to the picornaviridae (from pico: very small and RNA viruses). The virus causes hepatitis in humans, especially in areas of low socioeconomic status. Until now no related virus has been found in other...
