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Most commercial hand sanitizers are mainly alcohol, but forget about hitting the liquor store and mixing your own.
When the holes – also called ‘eyes’ – don’t appear in a batch, cheesemakers say the cheese is ‘blind.’
Knowing what genes cause antibiotic resistance – and where they are in the body – is critical for preventing further antibiotic resistance.
Americans love their supplements, but some of the products are contaminated with heavy metals, bacteria and toxic fungi. The FDA has little control because of a law passed in 1994.
Combining design innovation methods with medical disciplines such as microbiology can help tackle health related challenges.
From dietary supplements to poop transplants, probiotics are now a multi-billion dollar market.
Antibiotics aren’t a one-size-fits-all treatment – the one you had last time might not work on the infection you have at the moment. So how do doctors determine which one is likely to work?
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. But could they be key in solving the antibiotic resistance epidemic?
More evidence that vaping may be harmful to your health.
New research is uncovering that whales have their own distinct microbiomes that may play important roles in animal health. But how do scientists study whale microbiomes?
New research suggests that Earth’s oxygenation didn’t require difficult and complex evolutionary leaps forward.
Your taste for cheese and yoghurt may never have been satisfied were it not for illicit microbial sex.
Is your makeup making you sick?
The presence of antibiotics in the environment poses a threat to global public health, food safety and human existence.
It’s imperative that there’s research into the nature, extent, mobility and consequences of antibiotic resistance.
People caught and died from plague long before it caused major epidemics like the Black Death in the middle ages. Could what scientists call cultural resistance be what kept the disease under control?
Sweaty feet and certain cheeses have something in common that makes them reek – can you guess what it is?
Despite awareness of the importance of hand washing, most people often fail to do it properly.
More people are drinking unpasteurised milk but what does the evidence say?
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester
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