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most read article of 2018: Healthy hosts rule within: ecological forces shaping the gut by Andreas Baumler https://t.co/sD418eN3jU

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2018-12-30

Illustration i made for the article "Space Invaders" about microbiomes for via

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2018-11-23

What to do in microbio lab while waiting for your tubes to incubate for an hour? Do some phone SKETCHING!

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2018-11-22

- Jolt
The M13 bacteriophage is piezoelectric (applying pressure to it causes it to generate electricity). 6 yrs ago, Scientists genetically modified M13 to generate enough electricity to power an LCD display: https://t.co/zbS0d7LaqI

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2018-10-31

- Prickly
can look like they're prickly because of their coat proteins. Most viruses have coat proteins, which form a that protects their and/or bind to host cells during infection.

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2018-10-26

- Chop
causes a disease in which gives them swollen blue tongues. I'm not making that up! It can also cause abortions and has a high fatality rate in lambs. Less lamb chops - sad times.

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2018-10-24

Modern is helping historians answer an age-old question - how did Hannibal cross the Alps with an army of elephants?
https://t.co/LDQfesIh6Z

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2018-10-23

- Breakable
In 17th century Netherlands, a caused crazy speculation in the sale of stripey tulip bulbs, as the stripes weren't always stable. They didn't know that Tulip breaking virus is what makes stripey.

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2018-10-21

- Bottle
Acidianus bottle-shaped 1 is (unsurprisingly) bottle shaped! It infects & was found in an acidic hot spring. Its genome encodes 57 potential proteins, only 3 of which are similar to known proteins.

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2018-10-19

– Weak
In ~1% of infections, the causes muscle weakness and paralysis. Since the widespread chlorination of drinking water, the age of exposure to Poliovirus has increased, increasing the risk of paralysis.

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2018-10-16

- Clock
Many physiological processes are affected by our body clocks, or circadian rhythms, including immunity. Some are able to detect or alter these rhythms to initiate infection at times of lowered immunity.

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2018-10-15

– Whale
Pithovirus sibericum is a whale of a at 1.5um long – it’s bigger than some bacteria and can be seen under a light microscope! It was found intact within a 30k yr old Siberian ice core and can still infect amoebas.

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2018-10-12

“Gut microbes constituted a dystopian ecology — helping each other, cannibalising each other, living and dying in an intricate microbial mess.” Uncover the complex webs of the microbiome in the latest instalment from our issue. https://t.co/UdSnVBzAcO

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2018-10-10

- Roasted.
Desert water environments are dominated by particular kinds of (viruses that infect bacteria), presumably because they can handle the roasting environment and drying out better than other

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2018-10-04

I have a Microbiology exam this week

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2018-09-25

90 yr ago Alexander Fleming discovered the mould that saved millions of lives &changed the world🔬

that he painted using The rare eye helped him to discover the effects of
https://t.co/vOpqzr0Zd6

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2018-09-04

The Wednesday made me think of - fungal spores, named after the Greek word for dust...

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2018-09-01

Just some shots of my TNT2 stuff. "The New Technology" specifically. Please remember to follow pre-injection protocol before traveling to the microbiological research colony.

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2018-08-13

Reposting this old thing before making some adjustments. I've learned quite a bit about musculature and microbiomes since drawing this >:3

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2018-08-09