Genetic Breakthrough Reveals How Superbugs Outsmart Our Defenses
A groundbreaking study has unveiled how Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium often found in humans, evolves and survives, ...
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Innie belly buttons house fungi and bacteria capable of making cheese
She grew the belly-button bacteria in a petri dish and then added it to milk ... many of those microbes aren't unique to belly buttons, like staphylococcus, which can lead to staph infections.
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Antibiotic resistance: the fight of the century
In 1928, physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to find a petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria covered in mould, which, he was astonished to note, stopped the ...
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Fleming and the discovery of penicillin
Fleming discovered the Staphylococcus bacterium could not grow near the Penicillium fungus, which had contaminated his petri dish. As an extension of the study of cells and the structure of ...