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FeaturesThe rise of India Pale Ale
We chart the rollercoaster emergence of the India Pale AleThe emergence of the India Pale Ale.
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FeaturesSanitas, a public health hero
The Sanitas Company Limited: a once well-known concern deserving remembrance for its contribution to public health.
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FeaturesA passport to Pimlico for streptococci
Fred Griffith played a key role in the foundation of molecular genetics.
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FeaturesCitric acid's journey from sunny Sicily to industrial London
Like other major seaports, the hinterland of London’s docks was once a hive of industrial activity.
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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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FeaturesLouis Pasteur’s beer of revenge
Pasteur started studying the brewing process, prompted by the humbling defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871.
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FeaturesListon and Lister: surgery, anaesthesia and antiseptics
It seems unlikely that an interest in the history of microbiology would bring one to the roof garret of an 18th century church in Southwark.
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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 Tropical Products Institute
If you ever found yourself fortunate enough to visit the old SfAM (now AMI) offices in Charles Darwin House, then a short walk would have led you to a site of significance to our knowledge of mycotoxins.
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FeaturesA role for genetically engineered phages in personalised medicine?
In May 2019, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) made headline news with a report of pioneering bacteriophage therapy in the treatment of a 15-year-old cystic fibrosis (CF) patient with a life-threatening Mycobacterium abscessus infection.