February 2021

A Dalhousie University researcher has published a new paper that suggests a majority of children recognize the injustice of pay inequity at an early age and would incur a personal cost to ensure both boys and girls are paid equally.

Scientists around the world are closely monitoring the emergence of new variants of SARS-CoV-2 in a bid to better track and understand the impact of new mutations on the COVID-19 pandemic. This is being done through genome sequencing, a method that gives the precise genetic fingerprint of the virus that infected a person or animal.

Researchers at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Agriculture have discovered the plant-based essential oil carvacrol can rapidly kill Streptococcus pyogenes, the bacteria that causes strep throat.