Microbiology

Another Day, Another Raw Milk Listeria Crisis

Raw milk, which has been known for over a century to substantially increase the risk for bacterial illness, has led to another permanent government-ordered shutdown.  The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York entered a consent decree of ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 4 2018 - 5:00pm

Another Day, Another Organic Milk Recall

Pelleh Farms of Swan Lake, New York has recalled its Pasteurized Whole Organic Milk Non-Homogenized products due to improper pasteurization. At least it was almost pasteurized. In the demographic that thinks organic food is good, vaccines are bad, and scie ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2018 - 3:43pm

Ending Tuberculosis In Humans By Learning To Tolerate It

American government-funded science likes to declare wars. War on cancer, war on obesity, during the Obama administration there were seven different "Manhattan Projects" related to science and health. It connotes action, it makes the public feel l ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2018 - 11:39am

Gonorrhea Map Shows How Antibiotic Resistance Spreads Across Europe

If you want to understand the spread of antibiotic resistance across Europe, sexually transmitted diseases seem to be a decent barometer. Gonorrhea, caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, is the second most prevalent bacterial sexually transmitted ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2018 - 3:28pm

New Vaccines Instead Of Antibiotics As Approach To Treating Infectious Diseases

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli is a major cause of diarrhea in developing countries, and responsible for at least 300,000 deaths a year, according to the World Health Organization. Effective vaccines have not been developed, so patients infected are trea ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2018 - 10:08am

Endophytes: Study Shows GMO Corn Has No Impact On Good Bacteria

Bt modification in maize does not affect non-target beneficial microorganisms such as endophytes, according to a new study. This debunks some of the more obscure claims made by activists opposed to genetic engineering (suicides in India being the most biza ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2018 - 8:30am

New Molecules Similar To Carbohydrates Can Inhibit Enzymes In Infectious Diseases

New molecules similar to carbohydrates have showed the capacity to inhibit the activity of a specific type of glycoside enzymes- and that means inhibiting infectious diseases. Glycosides are essential enzymes to digest carbohydrates but they are also key p ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2018 - 8:20am

Organic Certification Is Not A Food Safety Standard

When Miles McEvoy became Deputy Administrator of the USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP) he set out to do something in the Obama administration that Science 2.0 long had called for, and Consumers Union had been calling for a decade before us; spot field ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 8 2018 - 10:27am

Black Friday Is The Day Of The Division Bio-Terrorist Attack: Here's How It Could Happen

In March of 2016, a game called "Tom Clancy's The Division" was released. Unlike other "shooter" games such as "Destiny" and "Call of Duty", "The Division" has a compelling science story. (1) And the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 28 2019 - 5:43pm

Malaria Mosquito Anopheles Stephensi Found In Ethiopia For The First Time

Anopheles stephens i, a malaria disease vector, is normally found in the Middle East, Indian Subcontinent and China. But now it has been found in Ethiopia, where over 68 percent of the population is already at risk for malaria and an average of 2.5 millio ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2019 - 1:52pm