Dr. Quave presented a motivational keynote speech at the Etowah High School Academic Letter and Lamp of Knowledge Ceremony in Woodstock, GA. At the request of some members of the audience, the full text of the speech is published below: Aspirations for Greatness Cassandra L. Quave, October 2015 Students, you…
🚨🚨Here’s the big piece I’ve been promising: an Atlantic cover story about the US’s catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic. It’s a full autopsy of what went wrong, every unattended weakness & unheeded warning, every festering wound & reopened scar. 1/
How the Pandemic Defeated America
A virus has brought the worldâs most powerful country to its knees.
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A Medieval Potion Proves Its Worth as an Effective Bacteria Killer
A Medieval Potion Proves Its Worth as an Effective Bacteria Killer
A 1,000-year-old recipe to treat eye infections could lead to an unorthodox way of combating antibiotic resistance. Garlic, onion, wine, and a dash of...
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Anti-#biofilm activity of Bald's eyesalve requires multiple ingredients, preparation is active against mature biofilms of several Gram+/- wound pathogens: Congrats @JFurnerPardoe on your first, first-author paper & @BlessAnonye on your first paper with us!
Anti-biofilm efficacy of a medieval treatment for bacterial infection requires the combination of multiple ingredients
Novel antimicrobials are urgently needed to combat drug-resistant bacteria and to overcome the inherent difficulties in treating biofilm-associated in...
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“Google Doodle celebrates the 280th birthday of French botanist and voyager Jeanne Baret, the first woman to have finished a journey of the circumnavigation of the globe, on July 27, 2020.”
Jeanne Baret: Google Doodle celebrates French botanist's 280th birthday - Time Bulletin
Spread the love Google Doodle celebrates the 280th birthday of French botanist and voyager Jeanne Baret, the first woman to have finished a journey of...
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My Forbes debut. 😊 #scicomm #blackafinstem #scientist #blackinnature #FossilFriday #phdchat #phdlife #Botany2020 #blackbotanicallegacy #paleoart Fossil Plants Could Help This South African Solve A 200-Year Puzzle via @forbes
Fossil Plants Could Help This South African Solve A 200-Year Puzzle
Paleobotanist Aviwe Matiwane is working in her native South Africa to find and catalog fossils of a plant that can provide us with a glimpse back in t...
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Medicinal plants traditionally used in treatment of infections in rural Uganda reduce the virulence of multidrug-resistant bacteria. This is done via quorum quenching, e.g. by blocking MRSA's ability to produce toxins, thereby 'disarming' the pathogen. https://t.co/VFG3xeldzT
Targeting ESKAPE pathogens with anti-infective medicinal plants from t
Targeting ESKAPE pathogens with anti-infective medicinal plants from the Greater Mpigi region in Uganda
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