More Features – Page 8
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FeaturesInvestigating chicken gut microbial dynamics in relation to Campylobacter prevalence
Can investigating the chicken gut microbiome provide us with novel intervention and control strategies against Campylobacter?
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FeaturesA renaissance in fermented milk: kefir makes a comeback
What is this creamy, cottage cheese-like substance, and why is it taking up residence in so many fridges?
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Long ReadsHow war sets the stage for epidemics
On 19 June 2022, Iraq’s health authorities announced a cholera outbreak after at least 13 cases were confirmed across the country and thousands of hospital admissions for acute diarrhea were reported.
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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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FeaturesHow Biocleave is teaching Clostridium new tricks in protein recombination
Do not judge a bacterial species by its headlines: there is more to Clostridium than food poisoning and botulism
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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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FeaturesMaking us keen for quinine
In 1817, quinine became the first chemical compound used to treat an infectious disease.
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FeaturesIce, ice, maybe? Francis Bacon and frozen meat
The scientific pioneer’s ill-fated investigation into whether flesh could be preserved in snow.
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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 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.