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The $80 Used Tissue That Might Be a Sick Joke

29 Jan 2019

The box espouses a white marble design, adorned with a clean geometric logo in gold. Inside is a Petri dish, a hint at the biological origin of its content: a crumpled paper tissue. Except it鈥檚 a...

From Farm to Pharmacy: Wading Through the Muddied Waters of Antibiotic Resistance

20 Feb 2018

One of the mandates of our Office is to foster students鈥 skills in communicating science. We encourage students to submit articles and we publish the ones that we consider to be well written. These...

Should we be Anti all Anti-Microbial Products?

8 Feb 2018

We received a question about antibacterial soaps, namely why should or shouldn鈥檛 we be using them? And if we鈥檙e supposed to avoid antibacterial soap, why is Purell, an antimicrobial agent, allowed?

H3N2 Influenza: Why Is It Called H3N2?

10 Jan 2018

It may seem as if flu viruses get chosen based on a sluggish and never-ending game of bingo....

Cats can get Leukemia and it's Contagious

4 Nov 2017

Cat鈥檚 can be infected with a virus called Feline Leukaemia Virus (FeLV), a virus which, if not fought by the kitty鈥檚 immune system before a certain infection stage, can cause secondary infections,...

Seeds of Hope: GMO eggplants

20 Mar 2017

Why would anyone oppose a technology that dramatically increases crop yields and protects farmers from excessive exposure to pesticides? Because of irrational fears about the technology involved,...

The H1N1 Influenza - An Injection of Reason

20 Mar 2017

I think the time has come to panic. But not about catching the H1N1 鈥渟wine flu.鈥 And not about the alleged risks of the vaccine that can protect against it. For the vast majority of people, the flu...

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