Arrest Bacterial Communication: Interfering with Quorum Sensing to Inhibit Biofilm Formation
Are you hesitant to enter the hospital emergency room, fearing that you may get infected with deadly bacteria? Well, this…
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How to Talk like a Medicinal Chemist in 10 minutes
I have worked in the drug discovery area for decades, and I often find that scientists, new or outside the…
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Why is this Question-Mark-Shaped Pathogen Hurting Dogs in San Francisco?
Record-breaking rainfall in the San Francisco Bay Area has helped California emerge from the drought that has plagued the state…
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Just because it is Natural does not mean it is Safe: San Francisco Woman Dies Drinking Exotic Herbal Tea
The use of plants for their medicinal properties is probably as old as humankind itself, with written records going back…
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This medical device is taking a bullet for you: Emery Pharma tests surgical screw for anti-biofilm activity
*This blog has been written and published with permission from Silver Bullet Therapeutics, Inc. For more details and information, please…
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There is No Escape from the ESKAPE Pathogens
The ESKAPE pathogen mnemonic was created to represent deadly bacterial pathogens with rapidly growing multi-drug resistant properties. ESKAPE stands…
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Titanic in jeopardy: New Species of Rust-Eating Bacteria can Devour the Historic Ship
Probably one of the most iconic ships of all time is being munched on by a critter we cannot even…
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From Benign to Lethal: The tale of the little E. coli that could
Evolution is a slow-moving, unyielding force that acts upon all life forms, leaving fossils and hidden traces in DNA as…
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How-to guide: Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC)
For many years, the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method accounted for most susceptibility tests. Using the Kirby-Bauer method, a zone of inhibition (where bacteria did not grow) could be identified and…
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Collision Induced Fragmentation of Macrolide Antibiotics
Emery Pharma’s LC-MS spectrometer is built for generality. Our photodiode array can capture all wavelengths from 200 nm to 800…
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