Small Things Considered

Time 2020-09-20 11:04:14

Web Name: Small Things Considered

WebSite: http://schaechter.asmblog.org

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Welcome to Small Things Considered! This blog shares the excitement of unexpected and unusual stories of the microbial world. The main contributors to this blog are listed on your right. But we do not just publish our own content, we have many contributions from students, postdocs, and others. We enjoy this, in part because theirs is a world where scientific communication will increasingly involve social media. And this blog is a social medium. Don’t think that we do this to avoid work. We are dedicated editors who spend a lot of time going over the material we receive. We are eager to hear from you, so send us your comments, criticisms, submissions, ideas, or whatever else comes into your mind. Thank you for visiting. by Elio | A recent epi sode of the Brit ish TV series 'Doc Mar tin' dealt with a some what un usu al bac te ri um. Se ver al child ren in the small town in Corn wall came down with what the good doc tor thought was im pe ti go, a high ly con tagi ous skin in fect ion caused by staph or strep. But the lab re port... Read more by Christoph | Imagine the E.coli nucleoid as a swig but of of a high­ly vis­cous tan­gle of a 2 nm thin and ~1.5 mm long DNA poly­mer, de­co­rat­ed with and high­ly com­pact­ed by a ple­tho­ra of pro­teins, and some­how sus­pend­ed in the cy­to­plasm of a cell with a vol­ume of ~1.3 µm3. It's vir­tu­al­ly im­pos­si­ble to "grip" the nu­cleoid, to mea­sure... Read more by Roberto | On occasion you might come across an odd-look ing plant where the flower or gan has been re placed by a leafy struc ture. To the ama teur gar dener this will seem a re mark able cur iosi ty, to the pro fes sio nal plant grower it will sig ni fy sub stan tial eco no mic los ses. To Jo hann Wolf gang von Goethe such sights meant the... Read more by Alexander Loy (@LoyTeam)Hey geomicrobiology and microbiome tweeps! Do you know that the sul fo sugar #sul fo qui no vose (SQ) is a ubi quit ous mi cro bi al nu trient in the en vi ron ment and in a ve ge ta ri an diet? No? Here comes some SQ pro pa gan da…a thread Read more by Elio | You may remember the solemn proclamation that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny," meaning that during our embryological development we (and everybody else) go through the steps in our evolution. This turns out to be quite wrong, but I bring it up because because it illustrates that phylogeny denotes the history... Read more by Janie | From a microbial perspective, in­sect me­ta­mor­pho­sis is a trea­cher­ous bu­si­ness. The trans­for­ma­tion from little earth­bound craw­ler to lapis-blue flier is a fla­shy eye-cat­cher, but the change is more than skin-deep. Deep with­in the lar­va, the con­tents of the gut are emp­tied, in­tes­ti­nal cells wi­ther away by auto­phagy and apo­pto­sis, and the ca­vi­ty is re-up­hol­ster­ed with di­vi­ding stem cells... Read more There is talk that Vibrio natrigens may supplant Escherichia coli as the model system for many bacterial studies. Do you think that the day of such model systems may have passed and, if so why? Read more by Camille Brzechffa | Although several current research endeavors developing preventative measures focus on vaccines for N. gonorrhoeae, few have examined how resident bacteria of the human body can combat its colonization. Read more by Elio | In this blog, we usually stick to mi cro bio lo gi cal to pics, but when one of bib li cal pro por tions comes along, we do not fight it. We are in fact plea sed to con si der news about the Dead Sea Scrolls, the 1000 or so frag ments of an cient do cu ments found in ca ves and else where in the Ju de an De sert. Their dis co ve ry is thought to be... Read more The purpose of this blog is to share our appreciation for the width and depth of the microbial activities on this planet. We will emphasize the unusual and the unexpected phenomena for which we have a special fascination... (more)

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