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Microbe Talk - Antimalarial drug resistance: current challenges and future solutions
December 20, 2024
In this episode of Microbe Talk Clare spoke to Adam Aspinall who's Senior Director in the Access and Product Management team at Medicines for Malaria Venture. They discuss Malaria, antimalarial drug resistance and the work that Medicines for Malaria Venture is doing to support new drug discovery.
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Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy: Viruses that cause viral haemorrhagic fevers
May 15, 2023
In our last instalment of ‘Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy’ we explored the little-known viruses that infect fungi. For this new instalment we will explore some of the distinct virus families that many of you will have heard of; viruses that cause haemorrhagic fevers in humans.
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Microbe Talk - Lab coats - the discrimination we don't see
March 10, 2023
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From parasites to plastics: new microbes discovered this month
January 30, 2023
Each month, the Microbiology Society publishes the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, which details newly discovered species of bacteria, fungi and protists. Here are some of the new species that have been discovered and the places they've been found.
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Podcast: Could a new vaccine save the Tasmanian devil from a contagious cancer?
January 17, 2023
Every year, thousands of Tasmanian devils die from contagious facial tumours. On this episode of Microbe Talk, Charlotte speaks to Dr Andy Flies from the Menzies Institute at the University of Tasmania, Australia, about a potential new vaccine approach that could save these endangered animals.
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2022 roundup: revisit our top content of the year
December 20, 2022
As 2022 comes to an end, we’re reflecting on the year behind us. Microbiology has remained a relevant and wide-reaching topic this year, whether from this summer’s Monkeypox outbreak, to the current rise of Strep A infections. In this blog post, we take a look back at our most popular content of the year. Read on, enjoy, and we’ll see you again in 2023.
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Behind the research: MeRRCI (Metagenome, metaResistome, metaReplicome for Causal Inferencing)
December 20, 2022
PhD candidate Vitalii Stebliankin goes behind the scenes of his latest research, 'A novel approach for combining the metagenome, metaresistome, metareplicome and causal inference to determine the microbes and their antibiotic resistance gene repertoire that contribute to dysbiosis' in Microbial Genomics, which introduces a novel approach to determine the microbes and their antibiotic resistance gene repertoire that contribute to dysbiosis.
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New microbes discovered in pigs, fish, the top of the world and the bottom of the ocean
December 19, 2022
Each month, the Microbiology Society publishes the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, which details newly discovered species of bacteria, fungi and protists. Here are some of the new species that have been discovered and the places they've been found.