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The Jews of Persia celebrated their narrow escape from annihilation at the hands of Haman’s antisemitic mobs, thanks to the ...

A debate over blind faith and health concerns has erupted after a Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) report detected alarming levels of faecal coliform bacteria in the Ganga at Prayagraj.

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The couple's daughter Muriel became a leading bacteriologist and founding member of the Society for Microbiology along with Alexander Fleming and Marjory Stephenson. She travelled to Uganda ...

Growth of a colony of microbes and pathogenic fungi in a Petri dish in a bacteriological laboratory A man works with agar petri close up A man touch bacterial colony on red agar (Endo) by ...

Phage therapy dates back to the early 20th century, shortly after the discovery of bacteriophages by English bacteriologist Frederick Twort (1915)[1] and French-Canadian Félix d'Hérelle (1917)[2] It ...