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How we learned to mass-produce penicillin
Today, we are desperately trying to figure out how to combat and keep up with antibiotic resistance — the frustrating tendency for bacteria to evolve defenses against the drugs we depend on to kill them. Seventy years ago, researchers were faced with a very different problem — how to take penicillin, the antibiotic derived from mold, and turn it into something that could be produced in large quantities.
Harvard’s Wyss Institute Develops New Nanodevice Manufacturing Strategy Using Self-Assembling DNA “Building Blocks”
Interlocking DNA "building blocks," can be programmed to assemble themselves into precisely designed shapes, such as letters and emoticons. Further development of the technology could enable the creation of new nanoscale devices, such as those that deliver drugs directly to disease sites.
Zanimljivosti
Scientists combine bird and swine flus to create mutant airborne virus
Researchers in China have created a batch of designer viruses by selectively combining genes from the H5N1 bird flu virus with those of the H1N1 swine flu strain. This reassortment process — which can happen naturally in nature — resulted in several hybridized strains that were able spread through the air and infect mammals.
Microbes: Small, Small World
Microbes in your body outnumber your cells by ten to one and can weigh as much as or more than your brain. Photographed here with a microscope, the human mouth hosts an array of microbes.
Izdavaštvo
Veterinarska klinička imunologija
Iako je riječ o sveučilišnom udžbeniku, knjiga je po svom sadržaju i opsegu namijenjena i kolegama veterinarima koji rade u praksi, ponajprije onima koji se u svagdašnjem radu bave tzv. malom praksom.
Postani član HMD-a
Cilj Društva je okupljanje mikrobiologa i stručnjaka srodnih struka s ciljem unapređenja svih grana mikrobiologije.
Skupovi HMD-a
Power of Microbes in Industry and Environment 2013
Date: 9th to 12th, October 2013
Venue: Primošten, Croatia
This symposium which covers practically all topics of applied microbiology is already the fourth in a row, starting with the meeting in Opatija in 2002 and followed by the symposia in Zadar in 2007 and Malinska (island Krk) in 2010. Like the previous meetings, the one next year will be organized by the Croatian Microbiological Society and co-organized by several other European microbiological societies, promoting the collaboration among microbiologists in Central Europe and broader. The experience of the past meetings motivated our efforts to continue with this series with a clear tendency to include new societies and strengthen the scientific connections among research groups of neighboring countries.
Ostali skupovi
5th Eurasia Congress of Infectious Diseases (EACID)
Date: May 15th and 18th, 2013
Venue: Tirana, Albania
European Biotechnology Congress 2013
Date: 16 - 18 May 2013
Venue: Bratislava, Slovakia
9th International Symposium on the Biology of Acinetobacter
Date: June 19 - 21, 2013
Venue: Cologne, Germany
The 2nd Conference on Controversies in Vaccination in Adults (CoVAC)
Date: February 14-17, 2013
Venue: Munich , Germany
The 5th Congress of European Microbiologists
Date: July 21-25, 2013
Venue: Leipzig, Germany
