#microbiology — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #microbiology, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1189543/ New study uncovers bacterial route to testosterone production #Androgen #Assay #bacteria #Bacterial #biochemistry #Cancer #Enzyme #Genes #Genomics #Hormone #hormones #Laboratory #metabolism #Microbiology #Microbiome #Molecule #Prostate #ProstateCancer #Protein #Research #Science #Steroid #StructuralBiology #testosterone #UK #UnitedKingdom
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#Bacteroides acidifaciens enriched by KRAS mutation promotes #colorectal tumorigenesis.
KRAS‑mutant #colorectalcancer selects B. acidifaciens, whose SusF stabilizes ARHGEF2 to amplify KRAS–ERK signaling and drive tumorigenesis.
#cancer #microbiology #oncology
https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/09/kras-mutations-enrich-bacteroides.html
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#Bacteroides acidifaciens enriched by KRAS mutation promotes #colorectal tumorigenesis.
KRAS‑mutant #colorectalcancer selects B. acidifaciens, whose SusF stabilizes ARHGEF2 to amplify KRAS–ERK signaling and drive tumorigenesis.
#cancer #microbiology #oncology
https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/09/kras-mutations-enrich-bacteroides.html
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#Bacteroides acidifaciens enriched by KRAS mutation promotes #colorectal tumorigenesis.
KRAS‑mutant #colorectalcancer selects B. acidifaciens, whose SusF stabilizes ARHGEF2 to amplify KRAS–ERK signaling and drive tumorigenesis.
#cancer #microbiology #oncology
https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/09/kras-mutations-enrich-bacteroides.html
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#Bacteroides acidifaciens enriched by KRAS mutation promotes #colorectal tumorigenesis.
KRAS‑mutant #colorectalcancer selects B. acidifaciens, whose SusF stabilizes ARHGEF2 to amplify KRAS–ERK signaling and drive tumorigenesis.
#cancer #microbiology #oncology
https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/09/kras-mutations-enrich-bacteroides.html
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#Bacteroides acidifaciens enriched by KRAS mutation promotes #colorectal tumorigenesis.
KRAS‑mutant #colorectalcancer selects B. acidifaciens, whose SusF stabilizes ARHGEF2 to amplify KRAS–ERK signaling and drive tumorigenesis.
#cancer #microbiology #oncology
https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/09/kras-mutations-enrich-bacteroides.html
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New study uncovers bacterial route to testosterone production
Many prostate cancers depend on androgen hormones, including testosterone, to grow. That is why treat…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #Androgen #Assay #bacteria #Bacterial #biochemistry #cancer #Enzyme #GB #Genes #Genomics #Hormone #hormones #laboratory #Metabolism #Microbiology #Microbiome #Molecule #Prostate #Prostatecancer #Protein #research #Steroid #Structuralbiology #testosterone #UK #UnitedKingdom
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4-Sep-2026
#Bacteria can make #testosterone. What could that mean for #prostate #cancer?
Auburn physicists help reveal how a #urinary microbe carries out #hormone #chemistry, one atom at a time. -
4-Sep-2026
#Bacteria can make #testosterone. What could that mean for #prostate #cancer?
Auburn physicists help reveal how a #urinary microbe carries out #hormone #chemistry, one atom at a time. -
4-Sep-2026
#Bacteria can make #testosterone. What could that mean for #prostate #cancer?
Auburn physicists help reveal how a #urinary microbe carries out #hormone #chemistry, one atom at a time. -
4-Sep-2026
#Bacteria can make #testosterone. What could that mean for #prostate #cancer?
Auburn physicists help reveal how a #urinary microbe carries out #hormone #chemistry, one atom at a time. -
4-Sep-2026
#Bacteria can make #testosterone. What could that mean for #prostate #cancer?
Auburn physicists help reveal how a #urinary microbe carries out #hormone #chemistry, one atom at a time. -
https://www.europesays.com/ie/673370/ New study uncovers bacterial route to testosterone production #Androgen #Assay #bacteria #Bacterial #Biochemistry #cancer #Éire #Enzyme #Genes #genomics #Hormone #hormones #IE #Ireland #Laboratory #Metabolism #Microbiology #Microbiome #Molecule #Prostate #ProstateCancer #Protein #Research #Science #Steroid #StructuralBiology #Testosterone
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🐛 Mixotricha paradoxa — the protist that swims using 250,000 living bacteria as outboard motors
When first described in 1933, Mixotricha paradoxa appeared to swim using thousands of hair-like cilia. Electron microscopy in the 1960s revealed the truth: those "cilia" were actually ~250,000 individual spirochete bacteria anchored to its outer membrane, beating in synchrony to propel the host cell.
This single-celled organism lives exclusively in the hindgut of Australia's primitive giant termite (Mastotermes darwiniensis). It has no mitochondria and no independent mobility — its four flagella act only as rudders, while the bacterial swarm does all the work. Evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis called it "the beast with five genomes" because it is a composite of host, two species of propulsion spirochetes, surface rod bacteria, and internal wood-digesting endosymbionts.
Mixotricha dies within minutes of oxygen exposure and has never been cultured in a lab. It is considered a living snapshot of symbiogenesis — the theory that complex eukaryotic cells arose when ancient prokaryotes merged into single functioning entities, frozen mid-transition.
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🐛 Mixotricha paradoxa — the protist that swims using 250,000 living bacteria as outboard motors
When first described in 1933, Mixotricha paradoxa appeared to swim using thousands of hair-like cilia. Electron microscopy in the 1960s revealed the truth: those "cilia" were actually ~250,000 individual spirochete bacteria anchored to its outer membrane, beating in synchrony to propel the host cell.
This single-celled organism lives exclusively in the hindgut of Australia's primitive giant termite (Mastotermes darwiniensis). It has no mitochondria and no independent mobility — its four flagella act only as rudders, while the bacterial swarm does all the work. Evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis called it "the beast with five genomes" because it is a composite of host, two species of propulsion spirochetes, surface rod bacteria, and internal wood-digesting endosymbionts.
Mixotricha dies within minutes of oxygen exposure and has never been cultured in a lab. It is considered a living snapshot of symbiogenesis — the theory that complex eukaryotic cells arose when ancient prokaryotes merged into single functioning entities, frozen mid-transition.
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🐛 Mixotricha paradoxa — the protist that swims using 250,000 living bacteria as outboard motors
When first described in 1933, Mixotricha paradoxa appeared to swim using thousands of hair-like cilia. Electron microscopy in the 1960s revealed the truth: those "cilia" were actually ~250,000 individual spirochete bacteria anchored to its outer membrane, beating in synchrony to propel the host cell.
This single-celled organism lives exclusively in the hindgut of Australia's primitive giant termite (Mastotermes darwiniensis). It has no mitochondria and no independent mobility — its four flagella act only as rudders, while the bacterial swarm does all the work. Evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis called it "the beast with five genomes" because it is a composite of host, two species of propulsion spirochetes, surface rod bacteria, and internal wood-digesting endosymbionts.
Mixotricha dies within minutes of oxygen exposure and has never been cultured in a lab. It is considered a living snapshot of symbiogenesis — the theory that complex eukaryotic cells arose when ancient prokaryotes merged into single functioning entities, frozen mid-transition.
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🐛 Mixotricha paradoxa — the protist that swims using 250,000 living bacteria as outboard motors
When first described in 1933, Mixotricha paradoxa appeared to swim using thousands of hair-like cilia. Electron microscopy in the 1960s revealed the truth: those "cilia" were actually ~250,000 individual spirochete bacteria anchored to its outer membrane, beating in synchrony to propel the host cell.
This single-celled organism lives exclusively in the hindgut of Australia's primitive giant termite (Mastotermes darwiniensis). It has no mitochondria and no independent mobility — its four flagella act only as rudders, while the bacterial swarm does all the work. Evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis called it "the beast with five genomes" because it is a composite of host, two species of propulsion spirochetes, surface rod bacteria, and internal wood-digesting endosymbionts.
Mixotricha dies within minutes of oxygen exposure and has never been cultured in a lab. It is considered a living snapshot of symbiogenesis — the theory that complex eukaryotic cells arose when ancient prokaryotes merged into single functioning entities, frozen mid-transition.
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🐛 Mixotricha paradoxa — the protist that swims using 250,000 living bacteria as outboard motors
When first described in 1933, Mixotricha paradoxa appeared to swim using thousands of hair-like cilia. Electron microscopy in the 1960s revealed the truth: those "cilia" were actually ~250,000 individual spirochete bacteria anchored to its outer membrane, beating in synchrony to propel the host cell.
This single-celled organism lives exclusively in the hindgut of Australia's primitive giant termite (Mastotermes darwiniensis). It has no mitochondria and no independent mobility — its four flagella act only as rudders, while the bacterial swarm does all the work. Evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis called it "the beast with five genomes" because it is a composite of host, two species of propulsion spirochetes, surface rod bacteria, and internal wood-digesting endosymbionts.
Mixotricha dies within minutes of oxygen exposure and has never been cultured in a lab. It is considered a living snapshot of symbiogenesis — the theory that complex eukaryotic cells arose when ancient prokaryotes merged into single functioning entities, frozen mid-transition.
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Bacteriófagos con satélites, elementos genéticos móviles similares a un virus que necesitan su ayuda para infectar bacterias, en este caso del género Streptomyces. 📷Tagide deCarvalho et al., 2023 #virus #microbiologia #microbiology
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/117133468453711262
The international team included scientists from the Universities of #Canterbury (#NewZealand), #Rostock, #Constance, #Ottawa (#Canada), #Strasbourg and #Tübingen, the Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial #Microbiology in #Marburg and the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in #Mülheim/Ruhr plus the IMDEA Materials Institute in #Madrid (#Spain).
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/117133468453711262
The international team included scientists from the Universities of #Canterbury (#NewZealand), #Rostock, #Constance, #Ottawa (#Canada), #Strasbourg and #Tübingen, the Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial #Microbiology in #Marburg and the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in #Mülheim/Ruhr plus the IMDEA Materials Institute in #Madrid (#Spain).
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/117133468453711262
The international team included scientists from the Universities of #Canterbury (#NewZealand), #Rostock, #Constance, #Ottawa (#Canada), #Strasbourg and #Tübingen, the Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial #Microbiology in #Marburg and the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in #Mülheim/Ruhr plus the IMDEA Materials Institute in #Madrid (#Spain).
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/117133468453711262
The international team included scientists from the Universities of #Canterbury (#NewZealand), #Rostock, #Constance, #Ottawa (#Canada), #Strasbourg and #Tübingen, the Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial #Microbiology in #Marburg and the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in #Mülheim/Ruhr plus the IMDEA Materials Institute in #Madrid (#Spain).
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/117133468453711262
The international team included scientists from the Universities of #Canterbury (#NewZealand), #Rostock, #Constance, #Ottawa (#Canada), #Strasbourg and #Tübingen, the Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial #Microbiology in #Marburg and the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in #Mülheim/Ruhr plus the IMDEA Materials Institute in #Madrid (#Spain).
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New review examines why tetanus remains a global health problem
Tetanus is often considered a disease of the past, remembered mainly through childhood…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #Bacterial #Children #Clostridium #Diagnostic #GlobalHealth #Healthcare #immunity #Immunoglobulin #infectiousdiseases #IntensiveCare #medicine #Microbiology #Muscle #nails #Nerve #nervoussystem #pregnancy #Respiratory #Swallowing #tetanus #Toxin #Vaccine #Wound #WoundCare
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New review examines why tetanus remains a global health problem
Tetanus is often considered a disease of the past, remembered mainly through childhood…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #Bacterial #Children #Clostridium #Diagnostic #GlobalHealth #Healthcare #immunity #Immunoglobulin #infectiousdiseases #IntensiveCare #medicine #Microbiology #Muscle #nails #Nerve #nervoussystem #pregnancy #Respiratory #Swallowing #tetanus #Toxin #Vaccine #Wound #WoundCare
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PhD position in Microbiology
Uppsala University, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiologyhttps://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/type:job/jobID:959399/?where=26 #GradSchool #PhD #Sweden #Microbiology
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Current advances in the development of #Nipah virus #vaccines
Review of Nipah virus structure, pathogenesis & #vaccine advances, highlighting gaps & future prevention strategies.
#OpenAccess #virology #microbiology #microbiology
https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/08/nipah-virus-vaccines-recent-advances.html
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Longitudinal Changes in Clonal Distribution and Fluoroquinolone Resistance of Ocular MRSA.
#Taiwan #ocular #MRSA shifted from CC59 to drug-resistant CC8, reducing fluoroquinolone efficacy and urging surveillance.
#OpenAccess #Microbiology #eye #antibiotics
https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/08/ocular-mrsa-in-taiwan-rising-cc8.html
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Bacteriophages are the most abundant and diverse viral entities on Earth, functioning as microscopic apex predators that exist exclusively to infect, replicate within, and ultimately lyse bacterial populations.
#WhatIs #Virology #Microbiology #EvolutionaryBiology #MolecularBiology #Biophysics #Biogeochemistry #ClinicalImmunology #sflorg
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The #Legionella pneumophila effector SidL is an adenylyltransferase that modifies the glycolytic intermediate 3-phosphoglycerate
#microbiology #metabolism #OpenAccess #glycolysis
https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-legionella-effector-sidl-modifies-3.html
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The #Legionella pneumophila effector SidL is an adenylyltransferase that modifies the glycolytic intermediate 3-phosphoglycerate
#microbiology #metabolism #OpenAccess #glycolysis
https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-legionella-effector-sidl-modifies-3.html
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The #Legionella pneumophila effector SidL is an adenylyltransferase that modifies the glycolytic intermediate 3-phosphoglycerate
#microbiology #metabolism #OpenAccess #glycolysis
https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-legionella-effector-sidl-modifies-3.html
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The #Legionella pneumophila effector SidL is an adenylyltransferase that modifies the glycolytic intermediate 3-phosphoglycerate
#microbiology #metabolism #OpenAccess #glycolysis
https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-legionella-effector-sidl-modifies-3.html
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The #Legionella pneumophila effector SidL is an adenylyltransferase that modifies the glycolytic intermediate 3-phosphoglycerate
#microbiology #metabolism #OpenAccess #glycolysis
https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-legionella-effector-sidl-modifies-3.html
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Current advances in the development of #NipahVirus vaccines
#OpenAccess #NiV #zoonosis #Nipah #microbiology #virology https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/07/current-advances-in-development-of.html
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Bacteriófago T4 que infecta la Escherichia coli adhiriéndose irreversiblemente a su superficie con su cola, que contrae para perforarla e inyectar su ADN. 📷Instituto de Microbiología (Biozentrum) - Universidad de Basilea #microbiologia #microbiology
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Researchers have discovered that metabolites produced by a specific gut bacterium can significantly enhance the body's immune response to cancer. The bacterium Bacteroides uniformis converts the amino acid tryptophan into indoles, which subsequently suppress tumor growth and boost anti-tumor immunity.
#Oncology #Immunology #Microbiology #NutritionalScience #sflorg
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How generative AI and physics can help design new antibiotics
#AI #GenerativeAI #Antibiotics #AntibioticResistance #MedicalResearch #Science #Physics #Biotechnology #Medicine #Innovation #DrugDiscovery #HealthTech #Microbiology #AIResearch #Bacteria
https://the-14.com/how-generative-ai-and-physics-can-help-design-new-antibiotics/ -
MY VIEWS/ Fungi family have ball in gardens | The Anderson News https://www.allforgardening.com/1800683/my-views-fungi-family-have-ball-in-gardens-the-anderson-news/ #AcerPseudoplatanus #BranchesOfBotany #FungalDiseases #FungalPlantPathogensAndDiseases #fungi #garden #GardenPests #gardening #GymnosporangiumGlobosum #GymnosporangiumJuniperiVirginianae #holomycota #InfectiousDiseases #Kingdoms(biology) #leaf #LeafSpot #microbiology #mycology #PathogenicMicrobes #phytopathology #PlantPathogensAndDiseases #plants #Rust(fungus) #trees
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Blepharisma es un género protistas unicelulares de color rosado, gracias a los gránulos del pigmento blefarismina. Estos gránulos le permiten detectar la luz y evitarla. 📷MikeN #microbiologia #microbiology
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Salinella salve es un animal multicelular descrito por Johannes Frenzel en los salares en torno al río Cuarto, en la provincia argentina de Córdoba, en 1892. Desde entonces no se ha vuelto ha encontrar, por lo que se duda de su existencia. #microbiologia #microbiology
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I absolutely loved working on the figure on microbial dormancy for researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory.
#scienceillustration #education
#geology #sciencefigures
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Los rotíferos bdeloideos tienen en su corona dos discos trocales cubiertos de cilios con los que crean una corriente para alimentarse. 📷zimmwisdom #microbiologia #microbiology
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La unión hace la fuerza. Cuando no dispone de bacterias de las que alimentarse, la ameba social (Dictyostelium) se agrega a otras y se mueve al unísono. #microbiologia #microbiology
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Metallogenium personatum es una bacteria que forma minerales de óxido de manganeso con forma de estrella. 📷Dag Klaveness #microbiologia #microbiology
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Kefir is a fermented milk product scientifically proven to reduce high blood pressure and exhibit significant antidiabetic effects by improving glucose absorption and insulin sensitivity.
#Biotechnology #Biochemistry #Microbiology #NutritionalScience #sflorg
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El paracariota de Myojin (Parakaryon myojinensis) es un organismo unicelular con rasgos tanto de eucariotas como de procariotas, pero a su vez con grandes diferencias con ambos. Se recogió en las cerdas de los poliquetos polinoidos de las fuentes hidrotermales de la loma Myōjin. 📷Tadashi Maruyama #microbiologia #microbiology
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El Trichoplax adhaerens es un placozoo, es decir, un animal acuático formado por una capa de células envueltas en un moco que, como los seres más simples, se alimentan por fagocitosis, se mueven con cilios y se reproducen sexualmente o asexualmente por gemación o división. 📷Bernd Schierwater #microbiologia #microbiology
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El Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis es una mixobacteria gramnegativa del suelo, donde forma cuerpos fructíferos naranjas. Caza en grupos a otras bacterias, produciendo enzimas y toxinas que destruyen a sus presas. 📷James Chambers et al., 2020 #microbiologia #microbiology