Brie. Goat cheese. Parmesan. Each so very different from one another, and yet, all so tasty. If you’re a cheese lover like me, you’re in the right place. Today’s blog article is all about cheese and t...
It’s been five whole years since I started The Microbial Menagerie and I’d like to thank each and every one of you for following along! In the past years, you’ve seen 108 blog posts (exactly 54,755 w...
One of my intentions when I started this blog is to show that microbes are everywhere. So what better way to do that than to share some of the ways we encounter microbes just by venturing outside? Tak...
Study of Aerosols and Microbial Contamination from Wind Instruments Spurred by the COVID-19 Pandemic
For the last two decades, I’ve sat in the middle of the clarinet section of orchestras, oblivious to the possibility of microbes swirling around me amidst the melodies and harmonies that fill the air....
Vaccines in the past typically work by using a weakened virus or a purified viral protein from the virus to stimulate our immune response. But, the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines we’ve been hearing about work...