All Early Career Research articles – Page 10
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The power in peer mentoring
Bernadine Idowu-Onibokun shares her experience in how positive role models, networks and visibility in science can foster a sense of belonging in your career.
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Which skills does it take to make a good biomedical scientist?
Key advice from an NHS Training Officer
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Deep sea sponges yield new bacterial strains that may battle pathogens
Researchers who scoured deep sea sponges in search of novel antimicrobial compounds have discovered several bacterial strains that are effective against a variety of pathogens.
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PhD candidate? Why and how to develop a career plan…
Tips on how to effectively plan for a career after your PhD.
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Bright orange lichens use their pigments as a ‘sunscreen’ while avoiding toxic effects
Fungi in orange lichens can avoid the toxic effects of bright pigments, allowing them to handle high UV loads.
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Probiotic blend may deliver double whammy of health benefits when added to animal feed
Researchers have discovered a blend of organisms that not only act as a probiotic in animal feed, but can also inhibit the toxic effects of a mycotoxin in the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line.
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Extracts from two wild plants inhibit COVID-19 virus, study finds
Two common wild plants contain extracts that inhibit the ability of the virus that causes COVID-19 to infect living cells, the first major screening of botanical extracts to search for potency against the virus has revealed.
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‘Friend or foe’ bacteria kill algal hosts when coexisting no longer works out
A study sheds new light on chemical processes that cause marine bacteria to switch from coexistence with an algae host to killer mode.
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Rhodococcus reveals where missing plastic in world’s oceans could have gone
The bacterium Rhodococcus ruber eats and actually digests plastic - as revealed in laboratory experiments by PhD student Maaike Goudriaan at Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ).
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Top tips for aspiring life science entrepreneurs
Jason Mellad, CEO of Startcodon shares his advice for starting a business in the life sciences industry.
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How can I become a biomedical scientist? Advice from the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS)
With over 21,000 members in 74 countries, the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) is the leading professional body for scientists, support staff and students in the field of biomedical science.
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Iron-scavenging endophyte could be newest weapon against resistant TB
An iron-scavenging endophytic bacterium could be the latest class of weapon in the fight against multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, researchers have found.
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Electricity-fed purple phototrophic bacteria convert carbon dioxide into high protein biomass
For the first time, researchers from University of Alcalá have grown a microbial consortium dominated by purple phototrophic bacteria (PPB) which are fed with electricity to convert CO2 into high protein biomass.
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Watch this space - AMI’s new jobs board is on the way!
New year, new career - if you’re ready for a move, help is on the way with Applied Microbiology International’s new Jobs Board, coming in January 2023.
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Bacterial speed of growth and metabolism can offer answers to inoculum effect
Scientists have discovered that interactions between how fast bacteria grow and the amount of energy or metabolism bacteria have can explain the inoculum effect for multiple antibiotics and bacteria species.
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Is there such a thing as a failed experiment?
Elisa shares some advice for those who may be disheartened by their experiments not quite going to plan.
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AMI internship leads Zoe down path of antimicrobial resistance
Zoe Dunphy undertook a lab internship in 2020 in Trinity College Dublin’s microbiology department, funded by an AMI Summer Studentship Grant. She reveals how that experience has developed her work on AMR.
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The scent of infection: how smells can help us spot disease
The smell of freshly mown grass. The sweet aroma of roses. The tang of a rubbish bin on a hot summer’s day. Scents are part of the backdrop of everyday life – but research is hoping they could be used to detect diseases.
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Investigating chicken gut microbial dynamics in relation to Campylobacter prevalence
Can investigating the chicken gut microbiome provide us with novel intervention and control strategies against Campylobacter?