Dr Fineran (32), who is a senior lecturer in the Otago microbiology and immunology department, spent most of last month overseas, attending two scientific meetings in the United States and visiting a laboratory in the Netherlands.

Since his return to Dunedin, the Royal Society of New Zealand has announced Dr Fineran is the only Otago scientist among ten top researchers throughout the country to gain a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship. This will provide him with $800,000 over five years…Read more

The Sentino pump streamlines analysis by replacing the traditional vacuum filtration system with a small peristaltic-action pump that draws aqueous samples through a membrane filter. Filtrate is channeled directly to drain or waste collection. The unit’s compact design makes it easy to use in confined spaces and frees valuable benchtop space. It also provides flexibility in arranging workspace for optimal efficiency and workflow.

A soft-touch keypad featuring simple on/off and pulse functions makes it easy to operate, with no complicated programming to validate. Operating parameters are preset and fixed to meet the published requirements for MF Technique as described in US EPA, ISO, and ASTM methods, thereby eliminating the need for extensive validations…Read more

Scientists had been struggling to map the structure of M-PMV, a protein involved in a virus that causes a form of simian Aids, in an experiment called CASP9. The search, in that experiment and others, had been going on for more than a decade. The solution was not found by a laboratory but the players of an online puzzle game.

“The lack of water and improper waste disposal are a big threat to lives due to the risk of waterborne diseases,” Adnan Khan, resident of Frontier Colony in Banaras and assistant professor of microbiology at Karachi University, told The News.

The threat of typhoid, cholera and other diseases from poor sanitation was real, he added.

He further said that the water pipes used in their area were of very low quality with virtually no maintenance. He observed that 30 percent of areas of Karachi had no proper sanitation system. He said that broken sewerage lines running in various slums had made life miserable…Read more

Graphically depicted in the upcoming film, “Contagion,” the average person touches their face three to five times a minute, unknowingly spreading germs. According to the CDC, “germs are often spread when people touch something that is contaminated and then touch their eyes, nose or mouth. Germs can live a long time (some can live for two hours or more) on surfaces like doorknobs, desks and tables”….Read more

The team which will comprise doctors from departments of microbiology, pediatrics, and community medicine, will examine the samples collected from a boy, who has been admitted to a private hospital in Manjeri with the symptoms of the disease. The parasitic disease caused by Trematode Flatworms of the genus ‘Schistosoma’, is a very rare disease in the country. It is commonly seen in sub-Sahara areas of Africa and the Gulf countries…Read more

His nominator, Roberto Bonomo, American Academy of Microbiology Fellow from Case Western Reserve University and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, describes some of his achievements, “Dr. Endimiani has undertaken a series of insightful studies examining the prevalence of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in multiple cities across the United States. He was the first to describe the coexistence of the blaKPC with the plasmid mediated qnr genes.”…Read more

This paper assembles a checklist of hyphomycetes (anamorphic fungi) known to be found in Nicaragua. Mr. Delgado’s research also includes the recording of 14 genera, 19 species and one forma that had not previously been found in Nicaragua. The article centralizes this wealth of knowledge on the mycology in Nicaragua into one source for use by researchers and educational facilities throughout the region…Read more

The Sentino Pump streamlines analysis by replacing the traditional vacuum filtration system with a small peristaltic-action pump that draws aqueous samples through a membrane filter. Filtrate is channeled directly to drain or waste collection. The unit’s compact design makes it easy to use in confined spaces and frees valuable benchtop space. It also provides flexibility in arranging workspace for optimal efficiency and workflow…Read more