#Bacterium

Moh El-Naggar

BioPhysicalMoh

An interesting paper, concluding that the nanotubes of Bacillus result from membrane-compromised cells after application of compressive pressure. I wouldn't extrapolate from there to other organisms or no mechanical stress

مُؤيّد Mُoaّyad

DrAuodi

"Whipple disease" Whipple's disease :is a rare, systemic infectious disease..‍caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei, primarily causes malabsorption but may affect any part of the body including the heart,

Dictator Watch

Citizen_Alert1

A senator in Kenya asks: Who is Murathe? A rhetorical question no doubt but a good opportunity to define Muratheists & Muratheism.Murathe is Svengali, short & simple. To understand who

Roland Baker

RolandBakerIII

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesuss was a committee member of the Marxist/Leninist Tigray Peoples Liberation Front who as health minister the government failed to honestly and openly report several cholera outbreaks, despite

VigilantEyes

WomanSci

Vaccine summary : Three main approaches to design vaccine. 1. Use a whole virus or bacterium. 2.Just the parts of the germ that triggers the immune system 3. Just the

Justin Mares

jwmares

1/n A quick tweetstorm about why I think Beyond Meat ($BYND) and Impossible Foods are the trans fat purveyors of our generation. 2/ Let’s start with Beyond Meat. For those

Jan-Willem Veening

JWVeening

New paper in which we built synthetic gene regulatory networks to control pneumococcal virulence in vivo. This project started in 2009 (!) so very happy to now see it out

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

This is potentially very big news: Astronomers have found evidence of what *might* — MIGHT — be life on Venus.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/so-astronomers-may-have-found-evidence-of-life-on-venus 2/ What they found is phosphine, a gas

Monica H Green

monicaMedHist

New thread of quick reading on the current state of Black Death studies (for new followers). I'm listing only #OpenAccess work, but remember that good scholarship costs $$, just like

Iacobus Novus

IacobusNovus

So I've been thinking about @Vermeullarmine's opening essay about Harlan's Lochner dissent and other decisions concerning based on the common good for @iusetiustitium for the last week.http://iusetiustitium.com/2020/06/17/common

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JVoluntaryist

The smallest thing that we can see with a 'light' microscope is about 500 nanometers. A nanometer is one-billionth (that's 1,000,000,000th) of a meter. So the smallest thing that you

Javier Buceta

JavierBuceta

Because COVID19 we hear about the PCR technique all day. I want to share with you some things about its discovery... Kary Mullis came with the idea about how to

Avraham Z. Cooper, MD

AvrahamCooperMD

1/14Why doesn't daptomycin treat pneumonia?The answer also explains why dapto raises serum CK levels.#medtwitter #tweetorial 2/First let's establish that daptomycin (bactericidal against gram positives) lacks efficacy in treating lu

Saumya Saurabh

saumya_s

How does a bug living in chaotic aquatic habitats tune its biochemistry for survival? Delighted to share our preprint describing the function of membraneless organelles in Caulobacter (CB) that tune

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

1/ On the need for a **true multidisciplinary approach** to aerosol & droplet transmission (aka “the Godzilla thread”) 2/ This thread is offered constructively to point out a problem &

foone

Foone

there needs to be some kind of metric for wikipedia articles for how many steps it takes to go from a basic overview to completely incomprehensible I started with "hair