Phys.org

New study challenges some dogmas about marine microbial life

If scientists want to find out how fast a population of bacteria grows, they often measure how their cell count changes over time. However, this method has a major flaw: it does not measure how fast ...
Science Daily

What you count is not necessarily what counts

Seawater is full of bacteria, hundreds of thousands live in every liter. But the sheer number of bacteria living in the water does not necessarily mean a lot. More important is how active they are and ...
Post-Bulletin

When you grill, it's important to follow the guidelines from the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service to prevent harmful bacteria from multiplying and causing food-borne ...

(NAPSI)—Cooking outdoors is in at any time of year. When you grill, it’s important to follow the guidelines from the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to prevent harmful bacteria from ...
The Conversation

Viruses may be ‘watching’ you – some microbes lie in wait until their hosts unknowingly give them the signal to start multiplying and kill them

Ivan Erill receives funding from the US National Science Foundation After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, you might picture a virus as a nasty spiked ball – a mindless killer that gets ...