World Congress of Biomedical Laboratory Science 2018

The 33rd World Congress of Biomedical Laboratory Science will be held on 22-26 September 2018, Firenze, Italy.

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IFBLS, World Congress

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Exercise for scientists

How do you build your muscle?


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Sketching Science

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Blood type compatibility chart

All you need to know blood types and to whom you can donate


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Blood type compatibility chart



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Lab Halloween Pumpkin

The rules were simple: collect a pumpkin from the cafeteria, carve it and return the carved pumpkin for a chance to win a pizza party! Sweet. I had not seen the winners either of the previous years so I was not entirely sure what we were up against. We decided to make our pumpkins work related: Heather make a DNA pumpkin and I made a microscope with some differently shaped bacteria.

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Pumpkin Carving Contest

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All you need is microbiology

E. coli on EMB media


Photo By: Madiha Tariq from Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Deadliest Viruses on Earth

Humans have been battling viruses since before our species had even evolved into its modern form. For some viral diseases, vaccines and antiviral drugs have allowed us to keep infections from spreading widely, and have helped sick people recover. For one disease — smallpox — we've been able to eradicate it, ridding the world of new cases.

But as the Ebola outbreak now devastating West Africa demonstrates, we're a long way from winning the fight against viruses.

The strain that is driving the current epidemic, Ebola Zaire, kills up to 90 percent of the people it infects, making it the most lethal member of the Ebola family. "It couldn't be worse," said Elke Muhlberger, an Ebola virus expert and associate professor of microbiology at Boston University.

But there are other viruses out there that are equally deadly, and some that are even deadlier. Here are the nine worst killers, based on the likelihood that a person will die if they are infected with one of them, the sheer numbers of people they have killed, and whether they represent a growing threat.


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The 9 Deadliest Viruses on Earth

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Neutrophil in fetal position

This neutrophil may give birth soon.

Image: Ines Salina

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