Perspectives From Our Scientists

Stores are stocked with items promising to kill bacteria, and many consumers purchase those products in an attempt to protect themselves from…

February 14th is all about love and we sure do love our town of Jackson, Michigan. In fact, on this day 126 years ago, Jackson officially became a…

TransPharm’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) recently approved intratracheal (IT) administration as a new route of inoculating…

TransPharm recently validated a "two-hit" model of sepsis in which mice undergo cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) followed by intranasal instillation…

After a bacterial infection is established, a small percentage of the bacteria slow their metabolism in response to environmental stressors. This…

A biofilm is a thin layer of microorganisms that have adhered to a surface and formed a complex, multicellular, three-dimensional structure. The…

What do the ancient Greeks and a group of modern-day researchers have in common? Scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine are…

Foodborne bacteria are a common cause of gastrointestinal infection, but a recent study found that a strain of E. coli in retail chicken and turkey…

Due to increasing rates of antimicrobial resistance, scientists are researching the potential of combination therapy (two or more drugs used…