Dr. Melanie Armstrong, of Western Colorado University, got a message, which reminded us of our Talmudic Questions... Read more →
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The Truth Is In The Outcome
by Elio — Coprolites – fossil feces – are nothing short of a marvel. A message from the past, they divulge important information about what their makers lived on as well as on how they lived... Read more →
Apuleius's Ass
STC bloggers — Elio: I am toying with an idea for a TQ but don't want to make an ass of myself (again, see TQ #155!). It has to do with the mechanism of genome reduction in endosymbionts. I find that little has been said on how it comes about, but most of the inference is that it's due to... Read more →
To The Bottom of the Sea
by Elio — Are there instances of water-containing sites on Earth that (pardon the expression) have not yet been metagenomicized? Surely many remain, but their numbers must be dwindling quite rapidly. Read more →
Talmudic Question #157
by Jacob Bobonis — Is there is such a thing as a taxon-characteristic pathway/feature that cannot be transferred in bacteria? Read more →
The Human Story, as Told by Our Genomes
by Jamie — As one of our wiser bloggers put it, "I doubt that STC readers are focused only on microbiology. They must have other interests too." With that insight in mind, we're offering up our impressions of a couple of books only tangentially related to microbes. In this case, a book describing the increasingly detailed picture... Read more →
Ancient Microbial DNA: Paleomicrobiology
by Daniel P. Haeusser — As our readers are likely aware, we are holobionts whose functional genetic makeup goes beyond just the human cells. Not surprisingly, investigation of ancient microbial DNA (paleomicrobiology) can also help scientists understand human history and evolution. Read more →
Fast Is Good...
by Michael Schmidt — Every now and then you read a paper and think to yourself, this might transform patient care. Such was the case when I read a paper suggested to me by one of our faithful TWiM (This Week in Microbiology) listeners, Dr. Volkan Ozenci of the Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden. The paper, 'Antibiotic susceptibility...' Read more →