Microbiology

Bacteria are single celled organisms. These organisms cannot be seen with naked eyes. There are million varieties of bacteria out of which few bacteria are useful for our body metabolisms in day to day life. Usually bacteria reproduce very fast in favorable atmosphere. However, some bacteria adversely affect our health. They affect our health either internally or externally. These days with the rapid growth and advancement in technology, we have treatments for almost every bacterial disease we…

In 1906 Mary Mallon was employed as a cook for a wealthy banker that resided in New York. Six out of 11 residents in the banker’s household developed typhoid fever. As a result of this, a sanitary engineer known as George Sober, quickly questioned the ill group of people, including Mary Mallon who had exhibited a less intense form of the disease. Mr. Sober first concluded that the infection was the result from freshwater clams; however, Mary Mallon was the host for the bacteria. She continued to…

The results show that the detergent is the most effective disinfectant out of ethanol, anticeptic, detergent and antibacterial. The hypothesis states “that if ethanol is used as a disinfectant on bacteria, it will be the most effective whereas an antibacterial will be the least effective” which is not supported by the results for the most effective disinfectant. It was hypothesised that antibacterial would be the least effective which is supported in the average results. What was found…

2 Ways How Brooklyn Hipsters Could Be Helpful for Science How many of you reading this article want to end hipsters once and for all? Let's face it, Brooklyn hipsters, in specific, are annoying, can't stop trending, and should not be tolerated with anymore. The only problem is they may actually be beneficial to science. Recent news has surfaced that there is certain bacteria in beards that can actually work as an antibiotic. As people know, many Brooklyn hipsters can be seen with beards, and…

There are many different diseases in the world. Some of which most people do not even have knowledge about. In the world, there are thousands of diseases. Many can be treated and many cannot be treated. Most people come in contact with diseases throughout their lifetime. One common disease is Pertussis. Pertussis can also be known as tussis convulsive, or more commonly as whooping cough. The prefix per- means thoroughly/extreme, and the suffix –tussis means cough (merriamwebster) This disease…

Following the Ways of the Scientific Method The scientists solved the Elkhorn Coral mystery using the scientific method by following each step of the method to come to a conclusion as to what is killing the coral. The followed the steps precisely so that would not make any errors during their trials. They started with the first step of the scientific method, making an observation. Paragraph 7, sentence 1 of “Underwater Whodunit: What’s Killing Florida’s Elkhorn Coral” states, “Hot on the trail…

Intro Many years ago, when the discovery of Ringworms came to be, an abundant number of doctors believed it was due to worms called hence. According to David Gruby around 1843, he described a fungus that causes a certain ringworm. Ringworms were extremely common among poor people during the 1800s they thought it was caused by bad hygiene. Now it has been proven that it is not actually caused by a worm the proper medical term is Tinea which is a fungus. (Homei A, 2013) Ringworm is classified by…

Ernst Boris Chain was fascinated with science, just like his father, but when Adolf Hitler came into power, Ernst Boris Chain was forced to flee to Great Britain in order to further his studies instead of being forced into a concentration camp. Ernst Boris Chain was “the son of a wealthy chemist,” and as he was growing up in Berlin, “Chain became interested in chemistry while he was a student at the Luisengymnasium in Berlin” (World of Health; Science and Its Times). While in school, “both his…

Cream may have the potential for use as a probiotic carrier because it provides an excellent environment for probiotic bacteria, with the added advantage of having nutritional value.Fatty Acids composition in fermented synbiotic cream, containing one of the two probiotic bacteria ( Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei ) and inulin (0,1.5, 3%) was evaluated during 30 days for the the15-day interval at 4±1 °C. All chemical characterization were affected by the probiotic bacteria strain…

Aspergillus nidulans: One of the lesser known pathogen of the aspergilli group, A. nidulans is a model filamentous fungus widely used for studying eukaryotic cell biology (Galagan et al., 2005). A. nidulans possesses a phospholipid-hydrolyzing novel cPLA2 protein, PlaA, which shows maximum similarity to mammalian-type cPLA2 proteins (α, β, γ) (Hong et al., 2005). Like the three isoforms of human cPLA2 proteins, A. nidulans PlaA also consists of two separate catalytic domainsA and B, and…