Article posted on TGPadova The Gold Medal was awarded to the P.A.S.T.A. project – Phage Assisted Silencing Tool against Antimicrobial… Read More »University of Padua awarded in Paris at iGEM Competition
iGEM Project 2023 | Part 1 Before explaining our idea, we would like to tell you something more about the… Read More »Let’s start here
Image by Freepik iGEM Project 2023 | Part 2 Every day, for millions of years, an eternal war has been… Read More »The deadliest being on earth
Image from: ACS Sens. 2020, 5, 12, 3739–3769 Publication Date:November 23, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.0c01961 iGEM Project 2023 | Part 3 Before continuing… Read More »A geometric Nature
Image by Technology Networks, Immunology and Microbiology iGEM Project 2023 | Part 4 We have mentioned the debate that is… Read More »Life without life
Image by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) iGEM Project 2023 | Part 5 At the beginning of this… Read More »No fear
Image from Lukas Kummer iGEM Project 2023 | Part 6 Genome editing is an extremely precise procedure of gene modification… Read More »CRISPR-Cas, biological origin
Image from Lukas Kummer iGEM Project 2023 | Part 7 The acronym CRISPR stands for “Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats.”… Read More »CRISPR-Cas, mechanism
Image from International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Dead Cas Systems: Types, Principles, and Applications iGEM Project | Part 8 The… Read More »CRISPR-Cas, the revolution of genome editing
Image by CellPress: Development and Applications of CRISPR-Cas9 for Genome Engineering iGEM Project | Part 9 After exposing the molecular… Read More »CRISPR: applications
Antibiotics: an ongoing war (part 1) The first real discoverer of antibiotics was an Italian named Vincenzo Tiberio. Tiberio came… Read More »From “mould” sauce to antibiotics
Antibiotics: an ongoing war (part 2) The word ‘antibiotic’ refers to a substance produced and released by microbes (including fungi)… Read More »Bacteria: the target of antibiotics
Antibiotics: an ongoing war (part 3) Antimicrobial drugs can be divided into different categories. Proper antibiotics are substances produced entirely… Read More »General aspects of antibiotics
Photo by CDC on Unsplash Antibiotics: an ongoing war (part 4) In the laboratory, we can measure the effectiveness of an antibiotic through… Read More »Antibiotics in lab
Photo by Christine Sandu on Unsplash Antibiotics: an ongoing war (part 5) Generally, antibiotics are categorised on their mechanism of… Read More »The main antibiotics
Main antibiotic-resistance pathogens classified by number of deaths (WHO, Nature). Antibiotics: an ongoing war (part 6) Antibiotic resistance is now… Read More »The counterattack of bacteria: antibiotic resistance
Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash Antibiotics: an ongoing war (part 7) The most common answer is the development of new antibiotics. However,… Read More »So, what can we do now?