The Scientist reports on mice fed a high-fat diet, whose children and grandchildren still felt the effects in social behavior and overall health:
… Read the rest “A mother’s diet can affect children’s – and grandchildren’s – behavior.”High-fat diets have previously been shown
Reuters enlightens a pandemic-weary world with news of a discovery of new life in the icy wastes of Antarctica. Unfortunately, the Chilean scientists study the novel bacteria say they’re… Read the rest “Antibiotic-resistant bacteria discovered in Antarctica. The question is: Will they stay there?”
Science News reveals the secret that makes Clostridium difficile infections so tough to treat – an outer barrier called “the S layer” that protects the gut bacteria… Read the rest ““Difficult” bacteria has chainmail to protect it from antibiotics.”
Science News is not panicking at all about the prospect of robots that can replicate copies of themselves that can then replicate copies of themselves:
… Read the rest “Living robots – “xenobots” – can reproduce themselves.”“This is an incredibly exciting breakthrough,”
Discover magazine discusses an unusual problem we haven’t had to face yet. How will Mars colonists handle their first funerals in an environment where human bodies don’t … Read the rest “Planning for a funeral on Mars.”
New Scientist reveals the cost of building a brain from scratch has just gone way, WAY down:
… Read the rest “We can grow brain tissue in a $5 microchip. (And it’s reusable.)”The device, dubbed a “microfluidic bioreactor”, is a 4-by-6-centimetre chip that includes small
Eurekalert introduces the next generation of living robots. Tufts University biologists and computer scientists have created a second generation of tiny, biological machines they’re… Read the rest ““Xenobots” are tiny robots made from living cells – self-healing swarms that can form bodies… and memories.”
This is not an alien forest. It is also not a picture of the COVID19 virus. It’s an illustration from 2016 of another coronavirus, and specifically of the spike proteins… Read the rest “Science Art: Coronavirus spike protein structure, by David Veesler, University of Washington,2016”
An image of yeast, originally made by NASA (though the context is now unclear, since the web page Wikimedia Commons sourced the photo from no longer exists).
The name “Hefezellen”… Read the rest “Science Art: Hefezellen”
BBC is not intimidating us all with news that researchers with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology have treated a colony of dormant microbes from the bottom of the South… Read the rest “Scientists have woken up 100-million-year-old microbes.”
Ireland’s RTÉ Brainstorm reveals how researchers are turning ordinary personal computers into a virus-killing supercomputer and recruiting gamers to solve puzzles that figure… Read the rest “Turning the virus into a videogame.”
From the USGS:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Aerial image and satellite derived image of Florida lakes, by Richard P. Stumpf, U.S. Geological Survey.”This image is a cropped rendition of two aerial images that demonstrate satellite-derived cyanobacteria concentrations in surface waters from an area
A snapshot of SARS virus particles – the coronavirus responsible for Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome – taken at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the military … Read the rest “Science Art: Colorized transmission electron micrograph of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus particles (orange) found near the periphery of an infected cell (green).”
Fans of the scaly anteater otherwise known as the pangolin can take heart in Nature‘s latest report, that might not have been the source of coronavirus after all. But then what was?:… Read the rest “Possible pangolin exoneration as coronavirus source.”
Science News reports on the humble jellyfish-relative that lives in the bodies of Pacific salmon and undersea worms, and gets along fine without any mitochondria – the part of a cell… Read the rest “A salmon parasite can survive without oxygen, without mitochondria, and with a lot of mystery.”
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