Playing Chicken With Antibiotic Resistance
The FDA bans injecting chicken eggs with antibiotics as a human health threat but backs down when industry groups — known collectively as 'Big Chicken' — squawk.
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Surely Some Flora Out There Can Fuel My Car
While the corn ethanol bubble has pretty much popped, serious efforts to find an economically sound and carbon-smart biological-based fuel continue.
Burning Fat With E. Coli’s Help
As this blog has been telling readers for a while now, medical research on mice should never be shunted — unless, of course, the 'shunt' itself is the focus of the research.
A New Weapon Against Staph Infections
A new sheriff in town is gunning for drug-resistant staph infections, but this sheriff is very, very small.
Lessons From the Reverse Engineering of Nature
A Miller-McCune Research Essay by Columbia University professor Shahid Naeem on the importance of biodiversity and the true significance of the human species.
A Better Way to Kill E. coli?
As food irradiation remains a sensitive subject in the U.S., the mechanics of killing bacteria on food without irradiating it just got a little easier.
Not All Can Stomach Raw Milk
While raw milk coming directly from the udder of the cow does have beneficial microbes, the chance of contamination once it leaves the bovine body is very high.
Profile of a Pimple
Of all the human diseases, you'd think that acne would be an easy one to give mice — not so much.
I’ll Have a Glass of What You Had Yesterday
Humans are actually less likely to be harmed by traces of detergents and drugs in our drinking water than are other species.