Jan 20, 2021
“I felt I had to stand up and be heard at least by the local council; it was never my intention that the video clip would go viral internationally….I gave my opinion, which seems to have struck a chord for many people internationally,” says Dr. Roger Hodkinson.
He’s not an anti-vaxxer, he’s not a so-called...
Jan 14, 2021
"This is the worse superbug you can get," said her husband's doctors when diagnosing him with a life-threatening multidrug resistant bacterial infection. But Steffanie Strathdee put her research skills to work and eventually was able to convince doctors to treat him with an experimental phage therapy that ended up...
Jan 12, 2021
Over the past century, one virus has been responsible for the
death of over 100 million trees in the world, posing an
agricultural problem particularly in regions of Asia, South
America, and South Africa; this virus is called Citrus tristeza
virus (CTV).
Press play to learn about it, and discover the following:
- What...
Jan 9, 2021
That grey fuzz you find on your
strawberries after a day or two in the fridge has researchers busy
in the lab. White and grey molds often harm crops and Shinyi
Marzano is working to inhibit these pathogens that often strike
greenhouse crops like lettuce, tomatoes, and strawberries.
Listen and learn
- How her work zeros...
Dec 30, 2020
Can the immune response to viral infection be strengthened to the point that the impact of the infection is greatly reduced, and later or latent infection is prevented? This is the question at the crux of Ebony Monson’s research in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Microbiology at Latrobe University in...