You must have noticed the sudden change in pitch of a siren on a police car zooming past. That’s the Doppler effect. Scientists at Purdue University have now used the Doppler effect to look inside ...

MOST workers in microbiological assay will have had experience of the well-established assay procedure that will occasionally give sub-optimal growth in some of the tubes, and hence discordant ...

In addition to their roles as disease vectors, bacteria and other microbes play an important part in modern science as essential tools for advancing biological research and synthetic biology. Methods ...

Daniel Blanchard (left) is a molecular biologist and geneticist by training who, before joining Thermo Fisher Scientific (MA, USA), spent many years in academia, working mainly on RNA biology, RNAi ...

To permanently access this eBook for free, fill out the short form below. The rise of antimicrobial resistance and novel emerging diseases has put microbiology at the forefront of public perception.

Researchers and therapeutic manufacturers have long relied on classical microbiological methods to check their samples and surfaces for microbial contamination, primarily using lengthy ...

A dominant paradigm in ecology is that plants are limited by nitrogen (N) during primary succession. Whether generalizable patterns of nutrient limitation are also applicable to metabolically and ...