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The Indoor Mold Is An Early Warning Device
The mold (or mould, in the Queen’s English) has been the victim of a bad press. Mention the word and it conjures up an image of something rotting or in the process of decomposition. And yet, were it not for the mold that inspired the discovery of penicillin millions of lives would have been lost. [...]
Science Projects
Hi kids, do we look familiar to you? We are bacteria and since we are very small and can only be seen under very powerful microscopes, people call us microorganisms. The cartoons you see above show how we could look like in your imagination. Some bacteria are good and can be beneficial to your body; some are bad and can [...]
Heterotrophic Plate Count: What is HPC and when is the right time to use it?
Heterotrophs are a group of microorganisms (bacteria, moulds and yeasts) that use organic carbon sources to grow and can be found in all types of water. In fact, the majority of bacteria found in drinking water systems are considered heterotrophs. Heterotrophic plate count (HPC) is a method that measures colonyA group of hyphae (fungal colony) [...]
Water pollution
Water pollution There’s no doubt that water is important. Water covers 70.9% of the earth’s surface, and is vital for all known forms of life which depend on water. Life on earth has been distressed by the growing number of ecological problems that are mostly caused by humans themselves (factories, sewage treatment plants, underground mines, oil wells, oil [...]
Listeria: How to avoid food poisoning caused by Listeria
Public awareness of the bacterium Listeria, an opportunistic pathogen, has been on the rise in recent years as the number of reported cases of listeriosis continues to grow. Listeriosis is an infection caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. The number of reported cases in Canada rose from 85 in 2003 to 239 in 2008. In [...]