I never eat bagged salads, largely because one of my research areas is fresh salad safety. It has been found that bagged ...

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Such detection speed is the result of combining ML and UV absorbance spectroscopy to detect microbial contamination in cell therapy products.

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A culture of venous blood obtained from the patient on September 22, 1948, revealed bacteria identical with those recovered from the blood in the first transfusion bottle.

In this interview with Diana Patzelt, we discuss mycoplasma contamination, how it affects cell-culture studies and how to detect it.