Hospital Sink Drains are a Total Horror Show of Germs
From February 2022 to February 2023, they collected (using cotton swabs) and genetically sequenced bacterial samples from six ...
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The gym can be full of germs – here’s how to protect yourself
Thankfully, there are many things you can do to lower your risk of encountering these germs during your next workout. By far, the most germ-rich areas in any gym are places that are warm and wet ...
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Why do disinfectants only kill 99.9% of germs? Here's the science
For example, if a colony of 100 bacteria doubles every hour, in 24 hours' time the population of bacteria would be more than 1.5 billion. Conversely, the killing or inactivating of microbes ...
Sharks And Rays As A Source Of Dangerous Bacteria: What The Data Shows
A new study finds that sharks and rays harbor several harmful bacteria, some resistant to antibiotics, raising concerns over their impact on public health.
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How climate change could affect the microbes that ferment grapes and give wine its specific flavors
In this process, universal gene markers found in every single known example of bacteria, fungi and yeast are used to describe the diversity and distribution of microbes in the samples taken at ...