Tag: antimicrobial

Archaea Attack!

There’s gold in them there… MICROBES?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Over time, germs become resistant to our antibiotic hand sanitizers. Yuck! Can we stop them by… panning for ancient organisms?! Enter Marcelo Torres and team at the University of Pennsylvania. They studied archaea

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Piercing Viruses

POP goes the virus! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Just think about all the germs we touch everyday. Eek! Who knows how many contaminated surfaces we bump into. It’s impossible to keep them clean. Or is it? What if we could kill viruses and

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