A dog’s nose knows, and it might just know when you’re emitting the scent of infectious disease. With its 300 million scent receptors, the dog’s most recent detective work involves COVID-19. Dogs are ...
Five years ago, Tasha Sturm shared a photo of an agar plate full of colorful bacterial colonies in the shape of a handprint. Perhaps you remember seeing it on social media. This bacterial handprint ca...
Don’t want to read but want to get some microbiology in your life? Or maybe you need something to get your through your long day in the lab. Here are some of my favorite podcasts with microbial ...
In 1933, Ruth Ella Moore (1903-1994) became the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in the natural sciences. The Columbus, Ohio native received her Ph.D. in bacteriology from Ohio State University, wher...
Convalescent plasma. It’s an old term that’s recently resurfaced as we face a virus with no vaccine. Just this week, a study of 20,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients who received convalescent plasma w...