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#Microber2021 12: DIVISION
In their infectious form, these brain-eating amoebae can divide without breaking up their nuclear membrane, in a process called promitosis.
#Inktober2021 #SciArt #PathogenPortraits #SciComm
#Microber2021 10: DEFENCE
As their defence, Bordetalla pertussis attacks our immune defences in the lungs, so the airways don’t produce mucus. This causes the coughs to make a characteristic whooping sound
#Inktober2021 #SciArt #PathogenPortraits #SciComm
#Microber2021 5: LYSIS.
To spread, #Hepatitis viruses (ABCDEFG…) explode their host cells ('cell lysis') to leave them because they don’t need host membranes to make new virions.
#Inktober2021 #SciArt #PathogenPortraits
#Microber2021 4: DORMANCY. Bacillus anthracis spores can lay dormant for decades, as tested on Gruinard Island in Scotland in 1942. Apparently safe now! #Inktober2021 #SciArt #PathogenPortraits
#Microber2021 3: FLAGELLA. Trichomonas is a #Parasite that causes bacterial vaginosis w. FIVE #Flagella & an axostyle. No one knows what the 5th one does. #Inktober2021 #SciArt #PathogenPortraits
#Microber2021 2: CELL. #Chlamydia causes blindness and #STDs, but it needs a host cell to turn it’s tiny elementary bodies into something that can replicate. #Inktober2021 #SciArt #PathogenPortraits
It's a bug eat bug world out there!
Yesterday @NoemieMatthey @LizahvdAart and I tried out @magmastudioapp together and it spiralled rather amusingly into a free for all...
#microbiology (not sure it's) #sciart
And finally, @StudioTeaBreak - I finished it, complete with caption from @joyousstitcher on IG - only a week late!
#ShapeChallenge #sciart #microbiology
Caption #Competition for @StudioTeaBreak's Tuesday #ShapeChallenge...
Winner wins a limited edition print of the final image!
#Sciart #microbiology
Fantastic #GraphicMedicine #comic about #antivaxxers by @troubledmn @thenib
https://t.co/abiZizlGSX
TL;DR but worth it:
The main fear stems from a debunked link w #Autism. Just saying '#VaccinesSaveLives', ignores that autism is a #Disability, not a deadly disease.