#microbiology — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #microbiology, aggregated by home.social.
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Flushing the toilet can release a ‘plume’ of breathable pathogens – and closing the lid won’t stop their escape https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/09/flushing-the-toilet-releases-pathogens-inhaled #AustraliaNews #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases #Science #Health #Hygiene
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Flushing the toilet can release a ‘plume’ of breathable pathogens – and closing the lid won’t stop their escape https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/09/flushing-the-toilet-releases-pathogens-inhaled #AustraliaNews #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases #Science #Health #Hygiene
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Flushing the toilet can release a ‘plume’ of breathable pathogens – and closing the lid won’t stop their escape https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/09/flushing-the-toilet-releases-pathogens-inhaled #AustraliaNews #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases #Science #Health #Hygiene
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Flushing the toilet can release a ‘plume’ of breathable pathogens – and closing the lid won’t stop their escape https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/09/flushing-the-toilet-releases-pathogens-inhaled #AustraliaNews #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases #Science #Health #Hygiene
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Flushing the toilet can release a ‘plume’ of breathable pathogens – and closing the lid won’t stop their escape
By Tory ShepherdNew research shows turbulent flushes create toilet-generated aerosols that can transmit legionella, influenza and norovirus
#Australianews #Microbiology #Infectiousdiseases #Science #Health #Hygiene #TheGuardian #ToryShepherd
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Flushing the toilet can release a ‘plume’ of breathable pathogens – and closing the lid won’t stop their escape
By Tory ShepherdNew research shows turbulent flushes create toilet-generated aerosols that can transmit legionella, influenza and norovirus
#Australianews #Microbiology #Infectiousdiseases #Science #Health #Hygiene #TheGuardian #ToryShepherd
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Flushing the toilet can release a ‘plume’ of breathable pathogens – and closing the lid won’t stop their escape
By Tory ShepherdNew research shows turbulent flushes create toilet-generated aerosols that can transmit legionella, influenza and norovirus
#Australianews #Microbiology #Infectiousdiseases #Science #Health #Hygiene #TheGuardian #ToryShepherd
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Flushing the toilet can release a ‘plume’ of breathable pathogens – and closing the lid won’t stop their escape
By Tory ShepherdNew research shows turbulent flushes create toilet-generated aerosols that can transmit legionella, influenza and norovirus
#Australianews #Microbiology #Infectiousdiseases #Science #Health #Hygiene #TheGuardian #ToryShepherd
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Bunsen burners’ reputation for sterilizing workplaces flames out https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02758-0 #science #microbiology #laboratory #labwork #bacteria #contamination
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Bunsen burners’ reputation for sterilizing workplaces flames out https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02758-0 #science #microbiology #laboratory #labwork #bacteria #contamination
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Bunsen burners’ reputation for sterilizing workplaces flames out https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02758-0 #science #microbiology #laboratory #labwork #bacteria #contamination
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Bunsen burners’ reputation for sterilizing workplaces flames out https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02758-0 #science #microbiology #laboratory #labwork #bacteria #contamination
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Bunsen burners’ reputation for sterilizing workplaces flames out https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02758-0 #science #microbiology #laboratory #labwork #bacteria #contamination
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I really enjoyed revisiting my favorite organism from grad school for the next "Meet a Microbe" on my blog.
Meet Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that can be found in the stomach of half the world's population. It's considered a carcinogen, but only causes cancer in a small fraction of people infected.
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I really enjoyed revisiting my favorite organism from grad school for the next "Meet a Microbe" on my blog.
Meet Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that can be found in the stomach of half the world's population. It's considered a carcinogen, but only causes cancer in a small fraction of people infected.
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I really enjoyed revisiting my favorite organism from grad school for the next "Meet a Microbe" on my blog.
Meet Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that can be found in the stomach of half the world's population. It's considered a carcinogen, but only causes cancer in a small fraction of people infected.
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I really enjoyed revisiting my favorite organism from grad school for the next "Meet a Microbe" on my blog.
Meet Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that can be found in the stomach of half the world's population. It's considered a carcinogen, but only causes cancer in a small fraction of people infected.
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I really enjoyed revisiting my favorite organism from grad school for the next "Meet a Microbe" on my blog.
Meet Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that can be found in the stomach of half the world's population. It's considered a carcinogen, but only causes cancer in a small fraction of people infected.
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Mpox is back – and in new countries. How this outbreak can be contained https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/26/global-health-mpox-outbreak-explainer-children #GlobalHealth #Mpox #Guineabissau #InfectiousDiseases #WorldHealthOrganization #Health #GlobalDevelopment #WorldNews #Society #Science #Microbiology #Biology #Africa #DemocraticRepublicOfTheCongo #VaccinesAndImmunisation #ChildrensHealth #Guinea #SierraLeone
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Mpox is back – and in new countries. How this outbreak can be contained
By Kat Lay, Global health correspondentThe public health emergencies in 2022 and 2024 saw the virus reported in 145 countries, but in the new cases children appear particularly affected
#Globalhealth #Mpox #GuineaBissau #Infectiousdiseases #WorldHealthOrganization #Health #Globaldevelopment #Worldnews #Society #Science #Microbiology #Biology #Africa #DemocraticRepublicoftheCongo #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Childrenshealth #Guinea #SierraLeone #TheGuardian #KatLay #Globalhealthcorrespondent
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Researchers have discovered that the local pattern of airflow, rather than just the overall ventilation rate, is the primary factor in determining how airborne diseases like tuberculosis spread in indoor spaces.
#FluidPhysics #ComputationalModeling #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases #EnvironmentalEngineering #sflorg
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Researchers have discovered that altering the carbon source in bacterial fermentation—specifically using inexpensive sugarcane molasses instead of refined sucrose—can significantly enhance the structural and biological properties of bacterial exopolysaccharides (EPSs).
#Microbiology #Biochemistry #MaterialsScience #BiomedicalEngineering #sflorg
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Researchers have identified a specific protein, TgPRO, that allows the Toxoplasma gondii parasite to alter its metabolism to survive the nutrient-poor, crowded conditions inside a host cell cyst.
#Microbiology #Parasitology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #Genetics #sflorg
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_Этология, етологія, Ethology
#Этология, #етологія, #Ethology
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/494_Энтомология, Entomology, Ентомологія
#Энтомология, #Entomology, #Ентомологія
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/493Эмбрио, Ембріо, Embryo
эмбриология биология развития Embryology developmental biology
#Эмбрио, #Ембріо, #Embryo
#эмбриология #биологияразвития #Embryology #developmental biology
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/492_Экология, Ecology, Екологія
эко окружающая среда энвайронментализм, экосистемы, популяции,
#Экология, #Ecology, #Екологія
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/491_эволюция, еволюція, evolution
теория эволюции, эволюционная теория
#эволюция, #еволюція, #evolution
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/490_Флора и фауна Украины
Flora and fauna of Ukraine
Флора і фауна України
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/489_систематика, taxonomy
#систематика, #taxonomy
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/488_Палеонтология, Paleontology, Палеонтологія
#Палеонтология, #Paleontology, #Палеонтологія
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/487_Орнитология, Орнітологія, Ornithology
#Орнитология, #Орнітологія, #Ornithology
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/486B Biology, Біологія, Биология
#Biology, #Біологія, #Биология
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/485_нейро, neuro
Нейробиология, нейрология, Нейробіологія, нейрологія, Neurobiology, neurology,
#нейро, #neuro
#Нейробиология, #нейрология, #Нейробіологія, #нейрологія, #Neurobiology, #neurology
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/483_Нематология, Nematology
#Нематология, #Nematology
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/482Определители растений, лишайников, грибов
Визначники рослин, лишайників, грибів
#Определители
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/481_Микробиология и Вирусология
Мікробіологія та вірусологія
Microbiology and Virology
#Микробиология и #Вирусология
#Мікробіологія та #вірусологія
#Microbiology and #Virology
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/480_Микология, Mycology, Мікологія
#Микология, #Mycology, #Мікологія
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/479_Макология
#Макология
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/478_Microscopy, Мікроскопія, Микроскопия
#Microscopy, #Мікроскопія, #Микроскопия
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/476Cell
Cell biology, Клітина, клітинна біологія, біологія клітини, Клетка, клеточная биология, биология клетки
#Cell
#Cell biology, #Клітина, #клітиннабіологія, #біологіяклітини, #Клетка, #клеточнаябиология, #биология клетки
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/475Клетка, клеточная биология
#Клетка, #клеточнаябиология
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/474_Красная книга
Червона книга, the Red Book,
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/473История биологии
History of biology
Історія біології
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/472Иммунология, Імунологія, Immunology
#Иммунология, #Імунологія, #Immunology
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/471Гистология, Histology, Гістологія
#Гистология, #Histology, #Гістологія
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/469_Грибы
mushrooms, Мікологія, Микология, Mycology
#Грибы
#mushrooms, #Мікологія, #Микология, #Mycology
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/470Зоология, Зоологія, Zoology
#Зоология, #Зоологія, #Zoology
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/468Genome, Геном,
геномика, Genomics, геноміка
#Genome, #Геном,
#геномика, #Genomics, #геноміка
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/466Genetics, генетика
#Genetics, #генетика
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/465Вода, Water
#Вода, #Water
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/464Владивосток, Vladivostok, Приморье, Приморский край
природа, наука, в основном биология, ДВГУ, дипломные работы
#Владивосток, #Vladivostok, #Приморье, #Приморскийкрай
#природа, #наука, в основном #биология, #ДВГУ, #дипломныеработы
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/463Анатомия и морфология растений
Анатомія і морфологія рослин
Anatomy and morphology of plants
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/462Сосудистые растения,
Судинні рослини
Vascular plants
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/460Низшие растения
Lower plants
Нижчі рослини
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/459Геоботаника, Геоботаніка, Geobotany
#Геоботаника, #Геоботаніка, #Geobotany
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/458Биоэтика, Біоетика, Bioethics
#Биоэтика, #Біоетика, #Bioethics
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/456Биохимия, молекулярная биология
Biochemistry, molecular biology
Біохімія, молекулярна біологія
#Биохимия, #молекулярнаябиология
#Biochemistry, #molecular biology
#Біохімія, #молекулярнабіологія
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/455Биология моря, морская биология
Marine biology, Біологія моря, морська Біологія
#Биологияморя, #морскаябиология
#Marine biology, #Біологіяморя, #морськаБіологія
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/453Альгология, Альгологія, Algology
#Альгология, #Альгологія, #Algology
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/452Bioinformatics, Биоинформатика, Біоінформатика
#Bioinformatics, #Биоинформатика, #Біоінформатика
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/450 -
How to Disentangle Specific vs Non-Specific Transcriptomic Responses in #Yeast
https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-to-disentangle-specific-vs-non.html
#OpenAccess #transcriptomics #mycology #Saccharomyces #microbiology
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🐨🍼 Scientists at the University of the #SunshineCoast in #Queensland, #Australia, are milking #koalas to analyze their milk.
They found the liquid contains unique proteins that kill harmful #bacteria and #fungi. The #research helps explain how joeys survive in their mothers’ pouches and offers clues for better koala #conservation.
👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/koala-milk
#koala #biology #marsupials #mammals #wildlife #science #evolution #zoology #biochemistry #nature #microbiology
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Harmless skin #bacteria naturally produce small, stable molecules known as #lipopeptides that can suppress the severe allergic inflammation triggered by #eczema causing microbes.
#Immunology #Dermatology #Microbiology #MolecularBiology #sflorg
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Systemic candidiasis is a severe, opportunistic #fungal infection caused by Candida albicans. Recent research demonstrates that reprogramming the metabolic pathways of a host's immune cells offers a viable strategy to clear the infection, circumventing the need for traditional #antifungal medications.
#Immunology #Microbiology #sflorg
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🦠 Are microbes evolving faster than our ability to industrialize them?
🔗 Exploring Genome-Wide Mutation Dynamics and Bacterial Cellulose Impairment in Komagataeibacter intermedius Cultivated Under Agitation Stress. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (CSBJ). DOI: https://doi.org/10.34133/csbj.0009
📚 CSBJ - A Science Partner Journal: https://spj.science.org/journal/csbj
#SyntheticBiology #Sustainability #Biomaterials #Microbiology #IndustrialBiotechnology #MetabolicEngineering #Genomics #Phenomics
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The Odyssey of macrophages.
This issue spans immune regulation, #macrophage functions, T‑cell tolerance, #AI in infection, #cardiac repair, pelvic care, PDT #inflammation & diverse clinical studies.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2319417026000235 #OpenAccess #microbiology #immunology
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Transcriptomic mapping of the #probiotic yeast #Saccharomyces boulardii within the mammalian gut revealed specific gene activation patterns distinct from laboratory cultures, characterized by distinct metabolic flexibility and stress adaptation mechanisms.
#Genomics #Microbiology #MolecularBiology #Chemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/geno02242601.html -
Transcriptomic mapping of the #probiotic yeast #Saccharomyces boulardii within the mammalian gut revealed specific gene activation patterns distinct from laboratory cultures, characterized by distinct metabolic flexibility and stress adaptation mechanisms.
#Genomics #Microbiology #MolecularBiology #Chemistry #sflorg
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Transcriptomic mapping of the #probiotic yeast #Saccharomyces boulardii within the mammalian gut revealed specific gene activation patterns distinct from laboratory cultures, characterized by distinct metabolic flexibility and stress adaptation mechanisms.
#Genomics #Microbiology #MolecularBiology #Chemistry #sflorg
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Transcriptomic mapping of the #probiotic yeast #Saccharomyces boulardii within the mammalian gut revealed specific gene activation patterns distinct from laboratory cultures, characterized by distinct metabolic flexibility and stress adaptation mechanisms.
#Genomics #Microbiology #MolecularBiology #Chemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/geno02242601.html -
Transcriptomic mapping of the #probiotic yeast #Saccharomyces boulardii within the mammalian gut revealed specific gene activation patterns distinct from laboratory cultures, characterized by distinct metabolic flexibility and stress adaptation mechanisms.
#Genomics #Microbiology #MolecularBiology #Chemistry #sflorg
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Our latest research article is a proof of concept protocol for combining #Nanopore sequencing with the #Twist Comprehensive Viral Research Panel. A great tool allowing us to study the #virome of clinical patient samples with a targeted #metagenomics approach.
#Research
#Science
#Biology
#Microbiology
#ClinicalDiagnosticshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682226000048
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“Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God”*…
From the piece featured below: “GDP per capita in Madagascar is about the same today as it was in 1950. As a consequence, the number of people in extreme poverty increased in line with the country’s population growth” (image source)It’s easy to feel hope in the advances that the world has made in eraditcating extreme poverty over the last several decades. But as Max Roser writes, unless the poorest economies start growing, this period of progress against the worst form of poverty is over…
In the last decades, the world has made fantastic progress against extreme poverty. In 1990, 2.3 billion people lived in extreme poverty. Since then, the number of extremely poor people has declined by 1.5 billion people.
This means on any average day in the last 35 years, about 115,000 people left extreme poverty behind.1 Leaving the very worst poverty behind doesn’t mean a life free of want, but it does mean a big change. Additional income matters most for those who have the least. It means having the chance to leave hunger behind, to gain access to clean water, to access better healthcare, and to have at least some electricity — for light at night and perhaps even to cook and heat.
Can we expect this rapid progress to continue?
Unfortunately, we cannot. Based on current trends, progress against extreme poverty will come to a halt. As we’ll see, the number of people in extreme poverty is projected to decline, from 831 million people in 2025 to 793 million people in 2030. After 2030, the number of extremely poor people is expected to increase.
To understand why the rapid progress against deep poverty will not continue into the future, we need to know why the world made progress in the past.
Extreme poverty declined in the last three decades because, back in the 1990s, the majority of the poorest people on the planet lived in countries that subsequently achieved very fast economic growth. In Indonesia and China, more than two-thirds of the population lived in extreme poverty. But these economies then grew rapidly, so that by today, the share has declined to less than 10%. Other large Asian countries — including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Philippines — also achieved strong growth, and as a consequence, the share living in extreme poverty declined rapidly. Much of the progress happened in Asia, but conditions in other regions improved too: the share living in extreme poverty also declined in Ghana, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Panama, Bolivia, Mexico, Brazil, and many other countries.
This chart shows the economic change in these countries over the past decades. As incomes increased, the share of people in extreme poverty declined.
Share of population living in extreme poverty vs. GDP per capita, 1990 to 2024 (World Bank, Eurostat, OECD, IMF)What is different today is that the majority of the world’s poorest people are stuck in economies that have been stagnating for a long time.Consider the case of Madagascar. In the long run, the country has not seen any growth at all: GDP per capita in Madagascar is about the same today as it was in 1950. As a consequence, the number of people in extreme poverty increased in line with the country’s population growth. In richer countries, it is possible to reduce poverty by reducing inequality through redistribution, but a country like Madagascar cannot reduce its share of people in extreme poverty through redistribution. This is because the mean income is lower than the poverty line; if everyone had the same income, everyone would be living in extreme poverty.
The situation is similar in other countries, as the chart below shows: in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Malawi, Burundi, and the Central African Republic, more than half of the population lives in extreme poverty. As their economies have stagnated, the deep poverty that most people live in has remained largely unchanged for decades.
This is why we have to expect the end of progress against extreme poverty based on current trends. If the poorest economies remain stagnant, hundreds of millions of people will continue to live in extreme poverty.
Share of population living in extreme poverty, 1992-2022 (World Bank)I’m always skeptical when people say that we are at a juncture in history where the future looks much different than the past. But when it comes to the fight against extreme poverty, I fear it is true. Today, the majority of the world’s poorest people are living in economies that have not achieved economic growth in the recent past… Based on current trends, we have to expect the end of progress against extreme poverty…
… It’s no news that we should expect an end to progress against extreme poverty. This article is an update of an article I published in 2019, in which I wrote the same: the fact that the poorest economies are not growing means that the rapid progress against extreme poverty seen in the last decades will end.
Although this prospect has been known for years, it has hardly received the attention it deserves. Progress against extreme poverty was one of humanity’s most outstanding achievements of the past decades — the end of it would be one of the very worst realities of the coming ones.
Importantly, however, these projections are not predictions; their purpose is not to describe what the world in 2030 or 2040 will certainly look like. These projections describe what we have to expect based on current trends; they tell us about our present world rather than the reality of tomorrow. Current trends don’t have to become future facts: many countries left extreme poverty behind in the past, because they had a moment at which they broke out of stagnation.
What these projections tell us, however, is that if the poorest countries do not start to grow, a very bleak future is ahead of us: a future in which extreme poverty remains the reality for hundreds of millions for many years to come…
Eminently worth reading in full– and acting on: “The end of progress against extreme poverty?” from @maxroser.bsky.social and @ourworldindata.org.
* Proverbs 14:31, NIV
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As we put our shoulders to the wheel, we might spare a thought for a man who contributed mightily to our capacity to feed humanity, Kenneth V. Thimann; he died on this date in 1997. A microbiologist, he was a pioneer in plant physiology (especially the hormones that control the development of plants). Building on the thinking of Frits Went, he identified the first plant hormone to be discovered– the first auxin, a class of growth hormones, and revealed its chemical structure– which proved very important to agriculture and its yields.
#agriculture #auxin #culture #demographics #growthHormones #history #KennethThimann #KennethVThimann #microbiology #OurWorldInData #plantPhysiology #plants #politics #poverty -
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Join us as Scientific Lead for the SILVA Database, a major resource for understanding microbes and their diversity. You will help guide SILVA’s future and support global research on microbiomes and biodiversity.
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The #intestinal #nervous system, often referred to as the "gut brain", is essential in controlling digestion and maintaining the intestinal barrier. This protective layer, made up of the intestinal mucosa, immune cells and the #microbiome, shields the body from the contents of the gut.
#Immunology #Biomedical #Microbiology #sflorg
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What virus causes infectious mononucleosis?
In seventh place is the Epstein-Barr virus. It is also called human herpes virus 4.
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🧫 What secret molecular choreograph helps bacteria stay resilient against antibiotics and detergents?
🔗 Coordinated subdomain movements of MlaC regulate ligand binding and transport. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.05.031
📚 CSBJ: https://www.csbj.org/
#Microbiology #AntibioticResistance #MembraneBiology #StructuralBiology #ComputationalChemistry #MolecularDynamics #ComputationalBiology #Biophysics #ProteinStructure #DrugDiscovery #MolecularDocking
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UC San Diego researchers have settled a decades-long debate surrounding the role of the first #Crohn’s disease #gene to be associated with a heightened risk for developing the #auto-immune condition.
#Microbiology #Biomedical #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #sflorg
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Historical Connections: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek & Jan Vermeer
From Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything":
The first person to describe a cell was Robert Hooke, whom we last encountered squabbling with Isaac Newton over credit for the invention of the inverse square law. Hooke achieved many things in his sixty-eight years — he was both an accomplished theoretician and a dab hand at making ingenious and useful instruments — but nothing he did brought him greater admiration than his popular book Microphagia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Miniature Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses, produced in 1665. It revealed to an enchanted public a universe of the very small that was far more diverse, crowded, and finely structured than anyone had ever come close to imagining.
Among the microscopic features first identified by Hooke were little chambers in plants that he called cells because they reminded him of monks' cells. Hooke calculated that a one-inch square of cork would contain 1,259,712,000 of these tiny chambers, the first appearance of such a very large number anywhere in science. Microscopes by this time had been around for a generation or so, but what set Hooke's apart were their technical supremacy. They achieved magnifications of thirty times, making them the last word in seventeenth-century optical technology.
So it came as something of a shock when just a decade later Hooke and the other members of London's Royal Society began to receive drawings and reports from an unlettered linen draper in Holland employing magnifications of up to 275 times. The draper's name was Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Though he had little formal education and no background in science, he was a perceptive and dedicated observer and a technical genius.
To this day it is not known how he got such magnificent magnifications from simple handheld devices, which were little more than modest wooden dowels with a tiny bubble of glass embedded in them, far more like magnifying glasses than what most of us think of as microscopes, but really not much like either. Leeuwenhoek made a new instrument for every experiment he performed and was extremely secretive about his techniques, though he did sometimes offer tips to the British on how they might improve their resolutions.[40][40] Leeuwenhoek was close friends with another Delft notable, the artist Jan Vermeer. In the mid-1660s, Vermeer, who previously had been a competent but not outstanding artist, suddenly developed the mastery of light and perspective for which he has been celebrated ever since. Though it has never been proved, it has long been suspected that he used a camera obscura, a device for projecting images onto a flat surface through a lens. No such device was listed among Vermeer’s personal effects after his death, but it happens that the executor of Vermeer’s estate was none other than Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the most secretive lens-maker of his day.
#science #biology #history #microscopic #Vermeer #Antoni-van-Leeuwenhoek #1600s #17th-century #microbiology #historical-connections #the-clementine-compendium #fun-facts #the-more-you-know #educate-yourself #Bill-Bryson #A-Short-History-of-Nearly-Everything #quotes #books #cellular-biology #scientific-observations -
Giraffes’ Gut Microbiome Communities Determined By Species, Not Diet
"The giraffe’s gut microbiome is made up of a variety of bacteria and fungi, and is largely determined by the giraffe’s species — not by what they eat."
#giraffe #microbiome #microbiology #GutBacteria #conservation #ecology #diet https://medium.com/grrlscientist/giraffes-gut-microbiome-communities-determined-by-species-not-diet-9a0cd46bc926
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Giraffes’ Gut Microbiome Communities Determined By Species, Not Diet
"The giraffe’s gut microbiome is made up of a variety of bacteria and fungi, and is largely determined by the giraffe’s species — not by what they eat."
#giraffe #microbiome #microbiology #GutBacteria #conservation #ecology #diet https://medium.com/grrlscientist/giraffes-gut-microbiome-communities-determined-by-species-not-diet-9a0cd46bc926
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Giraffes’ Gut Microbiome Communities Determined By Species, Not Diet
"The giraffe’s gut microbiome is made up of a variety of bacteria and fungi, and is largely determined by the giraffe’s species — not by what they eat."
#giraffe #microbiome #microbiology #GutBacteria #conservation #ecology #diet https://medium.com/grrlscientist/giraffes-gut-microbiome-communities-determined-by-species-not-diet-9a0cd46bc926
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This 300-page mirror life report has scientists terrified
#fyi #science #biology #microbiology #bacteria #ImmuneSystem #GeneticAlterations #geneticalterations #GeneticDisorders #Tibees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23XrmRKVi_M&list=UULF52kszkc08-acFOuogFl5jw&index=1
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#CyanoStat: An #OpenSource #Arduino-controlled platform for #CO2 regulation in #microbial incubators optimized for #cyanobacteria #cultivation:
-add-on device for off-the-shelf microbial #incubator
-cost: 65 €https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2025.e00649
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Microscopic Melodies: The Hidden Symphony of Sound and Microbial Life
#MicrobialLife #Psychoacoustics #Bioacoustics #Holobionts #MicrobialManagement #Eukaryotes #Cymatics #QuantumAntennae #Rebiosis #SoundScience #NatureSymphony #Microbiology #GutHealth #ScienceIsFun #HiddenWonders
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Growing pathogens and pitting them against potential antibiotic compounds… with robots. It's all in a day's work.
More in our conversation with Jayashree Srinivasan, #microbiologist and #PastryChef.
https://podbite.link/bites/__U4EOei
Watch or listen on your favourite platform: https://steampoweredshow.com
Show notes at https://steampoweredshow.com/shows/jayashree-srinivasan
#pathogens #antibiotics #robots #microbiology #IndustrialMicrobiology