infection
SFU researchers join the fight against treatment-resistant bacteria
May 11, 2023By: Eden Chipperfield, News Writer Assistant professor Dr. Amy Lee from SFU's department of molecular biology and biochemistry is leading a research project to study how superbugs evolve, and their potential effective treatments. Superbugs can be “strains of bacteria that are resistant to several types of antibiotics.” The concern over superbugs is significant due to how viruses evolve and become stronger, thus having further negative effects on humans. The purpose of the study is “to understand how bacteria develop resistance because that makes the drug ineffective,” according to SFU News. The research will study the genes of superbugs using “current…
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World News Beats
October 14, 2018Written by: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate Secret service agent awarded medal of honor Staff Sergeant Ronald J. Shurer II, a US Army Special Forces Medic, Secret Service agent, and cancer patient, has been awarded the US Military's highest award…
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World News Beats
September 22, 2018Written by: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate Airport in Libya shuts down due to rocket fire In Tripoli, Libya, the city’s sole airport, Matiga airport, closed again amidst rocket fire less than a week after it reopened. The rocket fire did…
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Vancouver records multiple measles cases
September 21, 2018Written by: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor Health officials from Vancouver are urging individuals across the city and its surrounding areas to update their measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination doses, after reported cases of measles have gone up…
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S.T. EYE is a great concept, but why a glowing condom?
July 6, 2015I almost fell off my seat after reading this: a few 14-year-olds from Isaac Newton Academy in Britain had invented a condom that glows different colours depending on what type of disease or infection you have. I thought, “Well, at…
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