by Elio
In a world beset by worries about using CRISPR and such technologies for potentially wicked purposes (e.g., cloning potentially dangerous foreign genes into babies' genomes), I am reminded about how such concerns were handle...
CRISPRs reveal unknown dispersal mechanism
by Jaime E. Zlamal
Ancestors of our cousins, the chimpanzees and bonobos, were once one single primate species which split into two when the Congo River formed about 2 million years ago. N...
by Elio
We resume our custom to list the posts from the last half year, lightly annotated.
Ecology
Inside Earth, Microbes Approach Immortality Jennifer Frazer kindly let us reprint an article from her delightful blog "The Artful...
by Christoph
Figure 1. The four interconnected QS systems of P. aeruginosa. Autoinducer synthases, LasI, RhlI, PqsABCDH and AmbBCDE, produce the autoinducers, 3-oxo-C12-HSL, C4-HSL, PQS and IQS, respectively. 3-oxo-C12-HSL, C4-H...
As is our custom at this time of year, we go over the material that has appeared in this blog over the last six months. Seems like a lot of stuff, but it’s the result of the work of quite a number of dedicated people, all of whom deserve...
We’ve prepared this quick tour for you, with brief visits to all the major articles we posted since our May, 2011, retrospective.
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Microbial Behavior
Are You Me or Am I You? Proteus mirabilis is one sentient bug: it can disti...
From the Library of Congress Shop (modified). Frontpage: Photo Credit Unhindered by Talent
Readers may be interested in learning that STC is being archived at the Library of Congress, thus its contents will be available in perpetuity...
by Ananya Sen
Figure 1. Phage meeting at the shore of Lake Mendota, Madison, WI. Source
The "Phage Meetings" have a long tradition. The first one was organized by Max Delbrück and held at Cold Spring Harbor in 1950. The meet...
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