by Christoph — Christina Savage, postdoc in Kumaran Ramamurthi's lab at the NIH, recently posted on Twitter the movie you see on the right with the remark: "And we just got our darkfield objectives in today! This was taken with my camera looking down the eye-piece, so not great quality. But I just love watching them!" I replied: "everytime I have the rare pleasure... Read more →
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Talmudic Question #189
Can you imagine an active mode of motion that unicellular microbes are not capable of, but multicellular eukaryotes are? Read more →
Extreme Living in the Atacama
by Roberto — This photograph resembles some of the images captured by the rover Perseverance and sent back to Earth from Mars. Instead, it was taken by a human at one the driest and most inhospitable places on Earth, the hyperarid Atacama Desert in northern Chile... Read more →
Typhus Vaccines
by Roberto — As a U.S. citizen living abroad, I often get queried about COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Why do so many people refuse the vaccine? Let me put it bluntly: I do not understand it. Read more →
TWiM 248: Borgs Are Real
TWiM discusses how to increase diversity in our field, and the discovery of Borgs, giant extrachromosomal elements with the potential to augment methane oxidation. Read more →
A Paramecium, a Purple Bacterium, and a Green Alga Walk into a Bar…
by Janie — "Three to tango" makes yet another appearance in endosymbioses, this time in the form of a purple-green ciliate that is home to both purple bacteria and green algae. At first glance, this seems like a paradox... Read more →
Yiddish and Microbiology, Maybe
by Elio — In a recent twilight dream, I pondered if there was a connection between Microbiology and Yiddish. Read more →
For Bacteria, Mating can be a Stressful Business
by Anna Dragoš — Bacteria live in microbial jungles where they constantly must cope with siblings exploiting their food, predators trying to eat them, or hostile strains shooting at them with antibacterial weapons. Through billions of years of evolution... Read more →
Other Support
by Roberto — Here's something that I suspect many STC readers, particularly those applying for funding, will sympathize with. Read more →
TWiM 247: Therapy With Paleofeces and Phages
TWiM explores whether ‘rewilding’ is a way to get back our missing gut microbes, and failure of bacteriophage therapy due to the production of neutralizing antibodies. Read more →