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NewsFarewell to John Rigarlsford: a giant in biocides
Former AMI president Dr Peter Silley pays tribute to longstanding member and former committee representative John Rigarlsford, who recently passed away following a short illness.
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NewsPolicy change may be helping to drive rise in treatment-resistant vaginal thrush
A change in policy may be helping to drive a rise in treatment-resistant vaginal thrush, amid significant yearly increases in the prevalence of fungal infections caused by fungal Candida species, suggests the first study of its kind.
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NewsGenomic signatures of domestication in a fungus obligately farmed by leafcutter ants
Researchers have harnessed cutting-edge genome sequencing approaches to decode the genetic building blocks that comprise Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, the fungus farmed by leafcutter ants.
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NewsScientists unravel the secrets of the spiral bacterium
A team of researchers has discovered the mechanism that determines the spiral shape of Rhodospirillum, shedding new light on the link between cell shape and fitness.
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NewsOrganisms in Neptune grass compost release oxygen, unlike land compost
Researchers studying the fate of the material produced by Posidonia seagrass meadows showed that the dead leaves accumulate in shallow areas, where they break down like a compost, remineralising the organic matter.
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NewsChild Health Day 2024: influenza vaccine protects children from infection and hospitalization
Spain’s influenza vaccination campaign for children aged 6-59 months during the 2023/24 season was effective in preventing acute respiratory infections and hospitalisation, as vaccination was recommended for this age group at the national level for the first time.
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NewsBeer-related discoveries mark Oktoberfest
To create a probiotic beer, researchers have screened several different lactic acid-producing bacterial strains.
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NewsScientists can pinpoint bacterial needle in haystack using fluorescence
Bacterial troublemakers are able to survive antibiotics and are not detected by diagnostic antibiotic resistance testing. A new method has been developed to look at single bacteria and to find the antibacterial resistant ones, or the troublemakers, among them.
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NewsFerring Pharmaceuticals bolsters global gene therapy supply chain with European manufacturing facility
Ferring Pharmaceuticals launches state-of-the-art global manufacturing hub in Finland for the drug substance of its intravesical non-replicating gene therapy Adstiladrin® (nadofaragene firadenovec-vncg), an adenovirus vector-based gene therapy.
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NewsFilament structure activates and regulates CRISPR-Cas ‘protein scissors’
Researchers have revealed the structure of the CRISPR-Cas ‘protein scissors’ found in bacteria and provided mechanistic details on how they function.
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NewsScientists study how a bacterium becomes a permanent resident in a fungus
To study the beginnings of endosymbiosis between two organisms, a team of researchers initiated such partnerships in the laboratory and observed what exactly happens at the beginning of a possible endosymbiosis.
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NewsResearchers unravel mystery of dormancy in food pathogens for more effective elimination
The detection tests commonly used to check for the absence of microbes in hospitals or the agri-food industry are based on microbial growth, i.e. the laboratory cultivation of microorganisms from a sample to be checked. If no micro-organisms appear during culturing, the sample is considered safe. Source: INRAE ...
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NewsMicrobial biofertilizers and algae-based biostimulants boost tomato crop
A team of researchers in Italy have shown that use of microbial biofertilisers and algae-based biostimulants can significantly enhance both the yield and quality of organic tomatoes.
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NewsBacterial contamination and microplastics threaten Colombia’s largest and most productive coastal lagoon
A study warns of the presence of potentially pathogenic bacteria in microplastics extracted from water, sediments and the digestive tract of fish in the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, the largest and most productive coastal lagoon system in the Colombian Caribbean.
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NewsBovine H5N1 influenza may spread via milking
Milking practices may be linked to the transmission of bovine H5N1 influenza virus, which affects dairy cattle and was first detected in the U.S. in spring 2024.
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NewsPlankton bloom off Madagascar linked to drought in South Africa
Researchers show that dust from drought-stricken Southern Africa caused a bloom of marine phytoplankton off the southeast Madagascar coast from November 2019 through February 2020.
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NewsVaccinating the young can save the old in the Tropics
A model suggests that vaccinating children and teens against the flu can help protect the elderly in tropical countries.
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NewsGut microbiome and tumor cachexia: New European research network
EU project ‘MiCCrobioTAckle’ aims to investigate the complex interactions between the gut microbiome and the human body in order to find ways of slowing down muscle breakdown in tumor cachexia, while promoting young scientists for microbiota medicine.
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NewsCentre for Microbial Interactions at Norwich Research Park is launched
The Centre for Microbial Interactions at Norwich Research Park is launched to promote and support ground-breaking research by one of world’s largest communities of microbiologists, with more than 100 microbiology research groups on one site.