Hattie Alexander, a dedicated pediatrician, medical educator, and researcher in microbiology, won international recognition for deriving a serum to combat influenzal meningitis, a common disease that previously had been nearly always fatal to infants...

Microbiology was born in 1674 when Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), a Dutch drapery merchant, peered at a drop of lake water through a carefully ground glass lens. Through this he beheld the first glimpse of the microbial world. Perhaps more than...

A number of techniques are routine in microbiology laboratories that enable microorganisms to be cultured, examined and identified. An indispensable tool in any microbiology laboratory is the inoculating loop. The loop is a piece of wire that is looped...

The world of microbiology overlaps the world of medicine. As a result, trained microbiologists find a diversity of career paths and opportunity in medicine. Research in medical microbiology can involve clinical or basic science. Clinical microbiology...

Extraterrestrial microbiology is the study of microbiological processes that could occur outside of the boundaries of Earth, or on other bodies in the solar system. While such microorganisms have not yet been found, recent findings of living bacteria...

Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are unicellular or cell-cluster microscopic organisms.[1] This includes eukaryotes such as fungi and protists, and prokaryotes such as bacteria and certain algae. Viruses, though not strictly classed as...

J. HERITAGE, E.G.V. EVANS AND R.A. KILLINGTON. Microbiology in Action. New York, NY Cambridge University Press, 1999.xi + 290 pp., 18 figs., 4 tbls., $54.95 (Hardcover); $20.95 (Paperback). This book is part of a series of books from the Institute of Biology, whose...

Medical Microbiology D. Greenwood, R Slack, J Peutherer, eds. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2002. ISBN 0 4430 7077 6. 709 pp. £34.99. The sixteenth edition of Medical Microbiology has reached a significant milestone as it is 75 years since the first edition of Mackie...

Five years after anthrax attacks left five dead and terrified America, scientists are reporting progress on developing a new vaccine they hope will work faster and with fewer side effects than the current one. The experimental vaccine cleared two big...

The gender gap has widened when it comes to hygiene, according to the latest stakeout by the "hand washing police."One-third of men didn't bother to wash after using the bathroom, compared with 12 percent of women, said the researchers who spy on people in public...