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“Here I am, trying to stop my grandma from taking amoxicillin for headaches.”

Let’s use antibiotics safely and responsibly, please.

biology is like the self discovery journey of a bunch of cells

Reasons to love tardigrades!

They have little eyes.

“Culture”-ally stimulating art. Even mold can be beautiful… 

by microbiologist Antoine Bridier-Nahmias

via Magical Contamination 

VACCINATE YA KIDS FFS

*sticks my hand in your nucleus and swirls your dna around*

Silver nanoparticles show promise in fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria

New research investigated whether silver nanoparticles could amplify the effects of antibiotics on antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

In a new study, scientists with the University of Florida have found that a combination of silver nanoparticles and antibiotics is effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

The researchers hope to turn this discovery into viable treatment for some types of antibiotic-resistant infections. Antibiotic-resistant infections kill more than a million people globally each year.

For centuries, silver has been known to have antimicrobial properties. However, silver nanoparticles—microscopic spheres of silver small enough to operate at the cellular level—represent a new frontier in using the precious metal to fight bacteria.

In this study, the research team tested whether commercially available silver nanoparticles boost the power of antibiotics and enable these drugs to counter the very bacteria that have evolved to withstand them.

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The zebrafish is used as model in developmental biology. Here two juvenile fish of just two days old. © MPI für Entwicklungsbiologie/ Jürgen Berger/ Mahendra Sonawane

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