#Microbial

Watch out folks: there's a lot of news circulating of a "new strain" of COVID called G614 found in southeast Asia. This is NOT A NEW STRAIN, but rather it
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New Publication from my Masters!Outdoor Atmospheric Microbial Diversity is Associated with Urban Landscape Structure and Differs from Indoor-Transit Systems as Revealed by Mobile Monitoring and Three-Dimensional Spatial Analysis In this
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Excited to share our preprint on Directed evolution of microbial communities!! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.24.214775v2.full.pdf+html No work can describe how much I enjoyed working with co-first @Oxfordvila and @asanchez
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Today Jim Prosser retires from an active career. Thread.His work is well known but just wanted to highlight some of his achievements with help from @graemepaton007. It was a pleasure
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[1/7] Absolutely chuffed about @joybergelson’s, Fabrice Roux’ and my lab’s #PATHOCOM project selected for funding by #ERCSyG @ERC_Research program. Our full project proposal at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13174337, and briefly
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How to avoid irradiating cannabis and achieve the perfect cure, with #data: an intro to water activity testing.(the most under-used metric for #cannabis #QA) First, why do we irradiate?Some microbials
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Microbial Growth and why it’s important in cosmetics (A THREAD) Okay let’s start with basics! What is microbial growth? Microbial growth is an increase of a population of microorganisms.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2505-4 I loved this paper and I bet it's conclusions will be taught in "Intro to Microbial Physiology" classes for decades to come. Very fun to read about a fundamental
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The word #Microbiome is derived from the word "biome", i.e. a distinct environmental habitat, in which microbes occupy and are part of. A Microbiome is therefore a spatially distinct environment
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In 2021 @microbioj @MicrobioSoc launched a Microbial Evolution section: we are very excited to receive your new submissions!But @microbioj actually has a long history of publishing great microbial evolution papers
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An underlying cause, or effect, or both, of aging, is inflammation.This is so characteristic of aging that it's been dubbed "inflammaging". Where does the inflammation come from?Could be from "garb-aging",
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The underlying problem not being talked about:There is no simple way of measuring transmissibility of a strain independent of environmental factors (winter) and social factors (degree of interaction)Both R and
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Terminology thread:rate ≠ riskinfection ≠ diseasequarantine ≠ isolationsocial distancing ≠ physical distancingprolonged PCR positivity ≠ sheddingvirulence ≠ transmissibility References to follow 1/ rate ≠ riskA risk is a proba
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Learned so much from @DrNicoleRedvers yesterday about "An Indigenous Micro- to Meta-Narrative: Microbes & Social Equity". (See thread attempt for notes!)Thank you, @DrSueIshaq, for making this talk open!#InternationalDayOfWome
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Tomorrow we land a rover on another planet. It's carrying an experiment that'll produce oxygen from the carbon dioxide FOR FUTURE ASTRONAUTS TO BREATHE AND USE AS FUEL TO RETURN.
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Happy to share our latest pre-print about how we identified the barriers that prevent FeS enzymes from functioning within non-native hosts.If you're a synthetic biologist tired of your cool FeS
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