Waterborne diseases affect over 7 million people in the U.S. every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and cost our health care system over $3 billion. But they don’t impact all people equally. A campuswide collaboration is using sewage surveillance as a vital strategy in the fight against diseases that spread … Read more
Artificial intelligence (AI) can provide same-day assessments of antimicrobial resistance for patients in intensive care — critical to preventing life-threatening sepsis. Antimicrobial resistance, the process of microorganisms developing defences against treatment, poses a huge challenge to healthcare around the world. It is estimated to cause 1.2 million deaths globally and cost the NHS at least … Read more
A group of McMaster researchers who routinely work with bacteriophages — viruses that eat bacteria — had a pleasant and potentially very important surprise while preparing slides to view under a powerful microscope. After treating samples of what are informally called phages so they could be viewed alive under an electron microscope, the researchers were … Read more