Glioblastoma Multiform
• Type of aggressive brain cancer
• Five year survival rate of 4.70%
• Not often detected until it’s in the later stages when
the symptoms appear
• Surgery is not an effective option due to invasion and
proliferation of glioblastoma cells outside of the tumor
mass before...
The recent multistate outbreak of
a multidrug-resistant (MDR) Salmonella Heidelberg
strain from commercial poultry production highlights
the need to better understand the reservoirs of these
zoonotic pathogens within the commercial poultry production
and processing environment. As part of a larger
study looking at temporal changes in microbial communities
within the...
The efficacy of DNA extraction protocols can be highly dependent upon both the type of sample being investigated and the types of downstream
analyses performed. Considering that the use of new bacterial community analysis techniques (e.g., microbiomics, metagenomics) is becoming
more prevalent in the agricultural and environmental sciences and many...