Can Plants, Vegetables, and Aspirin Contribute to Staphylococcal Infection?

Welcome to Miniposts, a series of articles based on posts made to the Bioscription Facebook page. Due to their often lengthy nature, it was decided that reposting them to the main site was appropriate. Please go here to view the original post. Is aspirin, anti-acne medicine, and fruits and vegetables actually a mild health concern? […]

A New Bacteriophage Cocktail as a Treatment for Cholera

Welcome to Miniposts, a series of articles based on posts made to the Bioscription Facebook page. Due to their often lengthy nature, it was decided that reposting them to the main site was appropriate. Please go here to view the original post. What’s one of the best way to fight off diseases, like those caused […]

A Bacterial Scourge Continues to Sweep Across Europe

Welcome to Miniposts, a series of articles based on posts made to the Bioscription Facebook page. Due to their often lengthy nature, it was decided that reposting them to the main site was appropriate. Please go here to view the original post. For several years, olive trees in Europe, especially along the Mediterranean, have been […]

Genetically Modified Stem Cells Result in Working Thyroid Cells

Welcome to Miniposts, a series of articles based on posts made to the Bioscription Facebook page. Due to their often lengthy nature, it was decided that reposting them to the main site was appropriate. Please go here to view the original post. A severe limitation on studying human cellular diseases is being able to investigate […]

Can Algae Survive in the Cold and Radiation of Space?

Welcome to Miniposts, a series of articles based on posts made to the Bioscription Facebook page. Due to their often lengthy nature, it was decided that reposting them to the main site was appropriate. Please go here to view the original post. The International Space Station (ISS) is the perfect place for new and exciting […]

Horizontal Gene Transfer in Plants: More Common Than You’d Think

Welcome to Miniposts, a series of articles based on posts made to the Bioscription Facebook page. Due to their often lengthy nature, it was decided that reposting them to the main site was appropriate. Please go here to view the original post. How common is transgenic gene transfer between organisms in the wild? Depending on […]

Modified CRISPR/Cas9 Creates Tuberculosis-Resistant Cows

Welcome to Miniposts, a series of articles based on posts made to the Bioscription Facebook page. Due to their often lengthy nature, it was decided that reposting them to the main site was appropriate. Please go here to view the original post. A significant accomplishment with CRISPR has been recently achieved. You may have heard […]

Fish Need Vaccinations Too: Fish Farming and Aquaculture

A major concern related to the ever-increasing population of humanity globally is the also increasing amount of overfishing and over-usage of some environments for agriculture. The response to the former has been to push more for aquaculture, essentially fish farming, in order to allow oceanic and river fish environments to recover from the effects of […]

Smoking Leads to Weight Loss? Fact-Checking With Nematodes

Smoking has long had a cultural history associated with weight loss. Even without understanding the biochemistry involved, ancient peoples and cultures all the way up to modern times have associated smoking with appetite suppression. Going off smoking has then often resulted in huge weight gain, related to a higher caloric intake afterward and a slower […]

Let’s Make A Brain: Stem Cells, CRISPR, and Cerebral Organoids

Perfectly mapping and even regrowing parts of a brain has long been something only considered to be a thing in science fiction. The technology has always seemed like it was centuries away from ever becoming a reality. But, day by day, researchers continue to develop new techniques and methods that push the boundaries of what […]