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Tag Archives: bacteria
Could we use bacteria to power tiny wind farms?
A single drop of fluid can contain billions of bacteria swimming around inside it. For the most part, the movements of these bacteria are random and chaotic. But if you look at them under the microscope, you begin to see … Continue reading
Posted in Technology, Video
Tagged active matter, bacteria, collective behaviour, micro machines, Motor, physics, Rotor, swimming, wind farm
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Archaea and the Tree of Life
As part of the latest issue of Microbiology Today, called ‘What is life?’ (published online 10 May), we explore the Archaea. These are microbes that have been around since the beginnings of life on Earth, but were only discovered in the last 40 years. … Continue reading
Microbe Talk: April 2016
Can parasitic worms treat inflammatory diseases? In 2010, a medical case report was published about a man with inflammatory bowel disease. The man had a serious case of a condition called ulcerative colitis, and was facing the prospect of having a … Continue reading
Posted in Podcast
Tagged bacteria, Crohn's disease, helminths, hygiene hypothesis, inflammatory bowel disease, Microbiome, mucus, Parasite worms, ulcerative colitis
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Microbial diversity and ‘unique’ cheeses
Traditional cheese-making with raw milk utilises bacteria from the local environment. Today at the Annual Conference, Bronwen Percival, Technical Manager at London-based Neal’s Yard Dairy, will explain how this traditional way of producing cheese is making a comeback, but how … Continue reading
Posted in Food Microbiology
Tagged bacteria, cheese, comté, curd, dairy, Lactobacilli, Lactococcus, Neal's Yard Dairy, pasteurisation, raw milk, unpasteurised, whey
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Discovering new lemur parasites in Madagascar
Madagascar is home to many species of wildlife that are found nowhere else on the planet. The island broke off from India about 88 million years ago and its inhabitants have evolved in isolation ever since, giving rise to the … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Microbiology, Microbial Evolution and Diversity, Parasitology
Tagged bacteria, Borrelia, conservation, lemur, Madagascar, parasite, plasmodium, RNA, transcriptome, zoonosis
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Microbe Talk: February 2016
It’s a well-known fact that the number of bacteria in, and on, a person outnumber the actual human cells present by 10:1, right? While this ratio often appears on presentation slides across the world, is it actually true? In this … Continue reading
Mapping the microbes in your mouth
Scientists from the Forsyth Institute have managed to visualise communities of bacteria in the human mouth, showing their spatial organisation for the first time in “microbial maps”. The maps could help scientists understand the interactions between different oral bacteria and … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Microbial Evolution and Diversity
Tagged bacteria, cauliflower, fluorescence, hedgehog, imaging, maps, Microbiome, mouth, plaque, teeth
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Microbes in an ancient mummy
Last month, researchers announced the discovery of ancient gut microbes in the frozen remains of a prehistoric mummy. DNA recovered from the bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, may ultimately change the way we think about the migration of our species. We spoke … Continue reading
Posted in Microbial Evolution and Diversity
Tagged ancient DNA, bacteria, Helicobacter, human migration, Iceman, mummy
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Microbe Talk: January 2016
Nature is full of patterns that follow fundamental mathematical rules – from nautilus shells to spiral galaxies, lightning bolts to blood vessels. In the first podcast of 2016, Anand spoke to Prof Raymond Goldstein from the University of Cambridge about the mathematical … Continue reading
Surfer bums and antibiotic resistant bacteria
Are surfers at greater risk of being colonised by antibiotic resistant bacteria? Anne Leonard, a PhD student at the University of Exeter Medical School, is trying to find out. Anne is part of a research team led by Dr William Gaze … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Video
Tagged AMR, Antibiotics, bacteria, beach, bum, E. coli, resistance, surfing
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