by Trevor Ghylin | Feb 16, 2016
http://www.agrinews.com/news/minnesota_news/the-biological-revolution-is-here/article_12ff66b1-11c9-573a-b11f-51c8fa880105.html This aritcle provides an interview with Pam Marrone, one of the leading innovators in biopesticides for agriculture. This field has been... 
by Trevor Ghylin | Feb 4, 2016
http://wuwm.com/post/despite-state-efforts-arsenic-continues-poison-many-private-wells-wisconsin Millions of Wisconsin residents rely on private wells as the only source of potable water in their homes. Unfortunately, most of these wells are rarely (if ever) tested... 
by Trevor Ghylin | Jan 25, 2016
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/its-time-to-rethink-how-we-identify-disease-causing-microbes/ A recent scientific opinion piece advocates for revising the 130-year old Koch’s postulates which laid the foundation for germ theory and our understanding and... 
by Trevor Ghylin | Jan 12, 2016
A new study published in Nature Microbiology finds that a deadly bacteria known as Burkholderia pseudomallei is much more widely distributed than previously thought. This bacteria causes a disease called Melioidosis which has a fatality rate of 70% and is now... 
by Trevor Ghylin | Jan 12, 2016
A recent study investigated whether microbial seed coatings may be able to enhance crop yields. The scientists plants seeds with 2,000 different microbial coatings in 500,000 test plots. The idea is that some bacteria can help provide nutrients (i.e. nitrogen) to...