All Bacteria articles – Page 91
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Long ReadsPlaying with fire: how wildfire shapes the soil microbiome of the Colorado Rockies
The high-elevation coniferous forests in the southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado (USA) provide more than just a beautiful landscape for winter sports and hiking: they are vital ecosystems that provide myriad ecosystem services.
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NewsInnovation in Africa: Aqua Methods Uganda
AMI member Timothy Kayondo was awarded £15,000 as part of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering
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FeaturesThe life and times of Sir Henry Wellcome
Wellcome was committed to high-quality science and founded other laboratories to join the WPRL, including the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratory in Khartoum.
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FeaturesToasting Alice Ball
Alice Ball became both the first African-American and the first woman to be awarded a Master’s degree in Chemistry in 1915.
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FeaturesThe perplexing progress of pickling and preservation
In 1819, two former school friends, Thomas Blackwell and Edmund Crosse, were apprenticed to a firm making pickles and sauces.
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FeaturesBlue plaque microbiology
Marking sites associated with notable people or events is an estimable and widespread practice.
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FeaturesSulphonamides and saving Churchill
One might not expect the names of Winston Churchill and Dagenham to occur together in a word-association exercise, but there is a notable microbiological connection between the two.
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FeaturesThe role of water in the transmission of disease
Breaking records: In 2018 the UK was host to the largest ever recorded fatberg.
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FeaturesA deep dive into the story of vinegar
The material used in chip shops is generally not vinegar at all.
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FeaturesBrown Institution
The new United States Embassy was previously the site of a microbiological institution.
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FeaturesThe race for acetone during the First World War
In 1917, conkers were as an important national resource.
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FeaturesLondon's hidden plague pits
Bunhill Fields cemetery in the City Road is a quiet haven on the edge of the City of London, mainly attracting office workers seeking lunchtime tranquility or possibly a shortcut to the Artillery Arms pub in Bunhill Row.
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FeaturesThe usually sterile womb
Culture-independent next-generation sequencing technologies have given us a far deeper understanding of the microbiome composition of various important health-related niches.
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FeaturesThe impact of rising seawater levels and subsequent flooding on microbial communities
Anthropogenic induced climate change has raised global sea levels and caused an amplification of coastal flooding events.
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FeaturesPesticide contamination: what can microbiologists do?
Agricultural production of food has more than doubled in the last century, enabled in part by the use of pesticides and other agrochemicals
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OpinionShould bacteriophages be included in the environmental surveillance of risks associated with antimicrobial resistance?
The contribution of phage to environmental antibiotic resistance should not be underestimated.
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FeaturesMastitis and microbiomes – a quandary
The microbiome concept has altered the way we perceive the relationship between microbes and their hosts.