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Blog / America Runs on the Microbiome

November 9, 2023November 10, 2023 / Tiffany Peters /

Why you should be nice to your bacteria: the role of the microbiome in human health.

Blog / Horseshoe crab: the crab that saves our lives

October 3, 2022 / Devina Thiono /

The crab that ensures our safety – from vaccine to medicine to medical devices

Blog / How Drinking Bacteria Won Scientists the Nobel Prize

October 26, 2021 / Taylor Tibbs /

The discovery of Helicobacter pylori and its link to stomach ulcers was initially dismissed in scientific and medical fields…until one scientist donated his own stomach to the cause.

Blog / How GMOs help to treat one disease at a time

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 / Devina Thiono /

Getting to know the positive side of GMO and how it has been helping to advance medicine.

Blog / You won’t get infected with an antibiotic-resistant bug…or will you?

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019 / Dominika Trzilova /

Antibiotic-resistant infections are the new ‘craze’. What does the Center for Disease Control have to say?

Blog / Bacteria Don’t Have to Be Single Cells: Candidatus Magnetoglobus multicellularis

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 / Connor LaMontagne / 2

We usually define bacteria as being single-celled organisms. But with microbes, there’s always an exception to the rule.

Blog / Transforming Blood Transfusions

July 24, 2019July 31, 2019 / Rachel Cherney / 2

Scientists have found a way for Type A blood cells to be transformed into Type O ‘universal donor’ blood cells which could be very useful for future blood transfusions.

Blog / How Your Gut Bacteria May Be Talking To Your Brain

February 21, 2019February 21, 2019 / Matt Niederhuber /

Bacteria are a big part of who we are as humans. They live all over us, forming distinct communities, or microbiomes, on our skin, in our hair, in our mouths,…