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Tag Archives: Microbiome
Summer Science Exhibition: Guardians of the Gut
This week, Dr Lindsay Hall and her research group from the Quadram Institute are exhibiting ‘Guardians of the Gut’ at The Royal Society’s prestigious ‘Summer of Science’ event. The event is running from 2-8 July and is expected to receive … Continue reading
World Microbiome Day: Journals Collection
The study of microbes helps us to understand our world and our place within it. In celebration of World Microbiome Day on 27 June, the Microbiology Society and the British Society for Immunology have collaborated to curate a freely-available collection … Continue reading
Posted in Microbiome, Publishing
Tagged british society for immunology, journals, Microbiome
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Science in Parliament: Unlocking the Microbiome
In the new issue of Science in Parliament magazine, our Policy Team write about the Microbiology Society’s Unlocking the Microbiome report, which outlines opportunities and challenges of microbiome research for health, agriculture, environment and biotechnology, reposted here. Science in Parliament is the magazine of … Continue reading
Podcast: Good Germs, Bad Germs
Have you ever wondered about the kinds of microbes that are present in your kitchen? In the fruit bowl or the fridge, on your chopping boards or cleaning cloths? Good Germs Bad Germs is a citizen science project from the … Continue reading
Spotlight on Grants: Eliminating plasmids for antibiotic resistance
Each year, the Microbiology Society awards a number of Research Visit Grants that enable our members to work in another laboratory anywhere in the world. PhD student Alessandro Lazdins fom the University of Birmingham writes about his trip to Sydney earlier this … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Grants
Tagged Grants, Harry Smith Vacation Studentship, Microbiome, tardigrade
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Spotlight on Grants: Do tardigrades have a microbiome?
Each year, the Microbiology Society awards a number of grants that enable undergraduates to work on microbiological research projects during the summer vacation. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting a series of articles from students who were awarded … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Microbiology, Grants, Microbiome
Tagged Grants, Harry Smith Vacation Studentship, Microbiome, tardigrade
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Microbe Talk: August 2016
I Contain Multitudes: An interview with Ed Yong “Every one of us is a zoo in our own right – a colony enclosed within a single body. A multi-species collective. An entire world.” In this episode, we chat to … Continue reading
Cows on antibiotics release more methane from their dung
It’s a well-known fact that cattle and other livestock are responsible for releasing greenhouse gases like methane into the atmosphere. However, contrary to popular belief, it’s actually bovine burps, not farts, that are to blame. Methane from belching is a … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology
Tagged Antibiotics, climate change, Cows, dung, dung beetle, greenhouse gas, Methane, Microbiome
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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
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Tagged bacteria, Crohn's disease, helminths, hygiene hypothesis, inflammatory bowel disease, Microbiome, mucus, Parasite worms, ulcerative colitis
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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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