Mycology

Although my fascination with Biology is rooted in my academic study, its seeds were planted long before. I still recall the simple childhood awe I felt travelling down the river, or the exhilaration of passing through valleys of forests in my hometown. Encountering such natural wonders firsthand fosters my fascination with what I would later learn complex biological and engendered an appreciation for some remarkable products created by interactions and adaptations of their components. I feel that

Development of resistance to Antifungal agents in candidiasis Introduction Patients with HIV/AIDS all over the world are dealing with candidiasis mostly. Literature data point out that this opportunistic pathogen is the leading cause of superficial and disseminated fungal infections in humans. 96% mycoses infection are caused by Candida sp (Kourkoumpetis T M. D., 2010).  In healthy individuals Candida colonizes mainly mucosal surfaces of the oral cavity, gastrointestinal and urogenital tracts without

George Washington Carver So why would George Washington Carver be so important? Have you ever thought that the peanut has more than three hundred uses? These and many other question will be answered in this essay and also about George Washington Carver. (digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu) Carver worked on improving soils, growing crops with low inputs, and using species that fixed nitrogen (hence, the work on the cowpea and the peanut). Carver wrote in The Need of Scientific Agriculture

Yeasts are one of the most researched microorganisms (Howstuffworks, 2008). They can be used for things such as alcoholic beverages, baking, probiotics, and much more. They are eukaryotic Fungi microorganisms. True yeasts are unicellular and reproduce mainly by budding (The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 2004). Budding is an asymmetric division process of mitosis. Yeasts of the genus Saccharomyces are especially important to alcohol fermentation (The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 2004)

Five years has passed since I graduated from GMU College of Science with Medical Technology bachelor degree, right after I graduated I was recruited by Quest Diagnostics to join their Flow Cytometry department as Medical Technologist II. My daily tasks were; preparing and analyzing samples to test lymphocyte subsets surface markers to monitor HIV+ Patients, HLA B27 antigen, leukemia/ lymphoma, and lime disease, I also ran miscellaneous surface markers using flow cytometry methodology. I routinely

INTRODUCTION Tinospora crispa, an herbaceous climber from the family Menispermaceae that commonly grows wild in Asian countries including Malaysia. This indigenous climber plant known by various local names like patawali, akar seruntun or akar patawali. Traditionally people used patawali to reduce hypertension and glucose level in the blood, to treat fever, remedy for various ailments such as cough, asthma, tooth and stomach aches. The medicinal potential values of Tinospora crispa have been reported

Histological study Light microscope examination Specimens from the left kidney from each animal were fixed in 10% saline formalin and processed to prepare 5-μm-thick paraffin sections for Haematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) stain (Bancroft and Gamble, 2008). Immunohistochemical study Immunohistochemical staining for localization of nuclear factor-erythroid-2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) was carried out by means of the avidin biotin complex (ABC) method (Dako ARK™, Peroxidase, Code No. K3954, Dako, Glostrup

Neisseria gonorrhoeae or common name gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease. Claudius Galen originated the name and thought the disease was cause by excess flow of semen (Talaro and Chess 2015). “Niesseria gonorrhoeae are gram negative, aerobic, and non-motile”. (Pathogen Profile Dictionary…2010) When observed under microscope, the appearance of intracellular diplococci with oval or bean will be seen. When grown on selective culture media, growth of gram negative, oxidase positive diplococcus

Introduction Sordaria fimicola is a commonly studied species of fungi from the phylum of Ascomycota, commonly known as the sac fungi or ascomycetes. Sordaria is more specifically studied in many mycology labs to gain a greater understanding of the exceptional formation of as many as 8 haploid ascospores. Normally Sordaria and other fungi exists as a haploid organism, but occasionally when the mycelium from two individuals meet, a diploid zygote is formed. The diploid cell is formed by the fusion

will be beneficial to nursing. Since August 2014, I have been working with Pathwest medicine laboratory at S.C.G.H hospital, Nedlands and have been a phlebotomist/specimen collector (blood, urine, faeces, sputum, skin scrape and nail clipping (mycology)). During this time, I have helped different clientele groups in the health care industry. I have attended people with multiple medical problems in out-patient collection centres and