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Kate MacDonald17 December 2018

Sometimes the same bacteria that make you sick can also make you healthy.

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CurioCity Careers22 May 2018

I process a range of patient samples to see if there are any micro-organisms growing on them.

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Damitha Gunathilake2 February 2018

Many doctors prescribe antibiotics to cure infections. But should they be prescribing viruses instead?

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CurioCity5 December 2017

I am a 6th year PhD student in Biochemistry

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Damitha Gunathilake1 August 2017

When groups of microorganisms live in communities, they can both cause and solve problems for people.

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Kate MacDonald20 July 2017

When you cut your finger, a complex, three-level system kicks in to make sure you stay healthy and ward off invaders.

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Sakina Bano Mendha25 May 2017

Scientists think that genetically engineered gut bacteria could help fight obesity.

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CurioCity Careers5 May 2017

As a research scientist, my job is to discover and study plant diseases that affect agricultural plants. Our ultimate goal is to reduce their impact on our ability to grow abundant and safe food.

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Tsukushi Kamiya6 March 2017

Treatment and prevention are direct costs associated with a disease. But did you know that diseases also have less obvious, indirect costs? In the case of malaria, they include poor school performance and a higher risk of Salmonella infection.

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CurioCity8 December 2016

I work on poop, specifically the multitudes of microbes that live inside poop. That doesn't sound very glamorous, but we now understand that these microbes have a fundamental role in our health and well-being; we have been very slow to realize this, and our current western lifestyle choices can be hostile to our microbes, in extreme cases causing disease.

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