Gut bacteria choose what you eat.
Science Daily takes us humans out of the driver’s seat and puts the germs inside us in charge of the menu tonight: In an article […]
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HIV therapy might work on MS, too.
Neomatica explains how British and Australian researchers are figuring out why HIV patients show an unusual resistance to multiple sclerosis and its symptoms. It may […]
Antiperspirant makes you stinkier. In the long run.
Ain’t that modern life all over? Real Clear Science exposes the (potentially) stinky way antiperspirants alter your armpit bacteria: While most of us might only […]
Sex with death (is how bacteria do it).
Birds do it and bees do it as celebration of life. Science Daily explains how bacteria can do it – and make themselves antibiotic-resistant – […]
Science Art:Bacterial morphology diagram, by Mariana Ruiz
It could be the new collection of shower curtains and matching towels at Target. But no – pleasant though they may be to look at, […]
Giant, prehistoric virus thawed from Siberian permafrost.
New Scientist is not (we hope) introducing a 1950s-style horror film with their story on the giant, prehistoric virus THAT LIVES AGAIN: Dubbed a pithovirus […]
Rheumatoid arthritis linked to gut germs.
Intestinal bacteria, that is. Rheumatoid arthritis has long been a medical mystery – an autoimmune disease that’s triggered by who-knows-what, but that suddenly starts attacking […]
Some critters are so small, they can’t make a species.
That’s the argument Laboratory Equipment describes some mathematical taxonomists (there’s a discipline for you) are making – claiming that some kinds of plankton are individually […]
Cthulhu lives! He’s just really small. And kinda cute.
Science, Space & Robots brings the paralysis of inhuman knowledge, as creatures tiny and writhing cast their malevolent gazes up at the electron scanning microscope. […]
Artificial stem cells make new blood.
One step closer to androids. That’s where scilogs is bringing us. Making a blood supply for bioengineered organs from scratch: Starting off with fibroblasts…, widespread […]
Science Art: Plant Cell Structure, by Russell Kightley
Australian digital artist Russell Kightley does scientific visualization. I found this particular vision on Scientific Illustration.
There is life under Antarctica’s ice.
Nature celebrates the discovery of ancient life… not from the much-ballyhooed Lake Vostok project, but a smaller lake. Still frozen for a long, long time. […]
Mother’s milk really is safe – it kills HIV.
New Scientist makes one more argument for breast-feeding, with research that shows breast milk seems to wipe out the virus that causes AIDS: Previous research […]
Magnetic bacteria make lively hard drives.
New Scientist has a knack for bringing weird science to life. In this case, electronic germ-based computers: Hard drives are usually made by “sputtering”, in […]
Lovecraft report: Proto-organism found in remote lake sludge.
PhysOrg calls it “man’s remotest relative,” a living thing that has no branch on the tree of life. Why can’t they just call a shoggoth […]