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This listing is not rated yet.   Rate it!  |  Report it! Twisted Bacteria http://twistedbacteria.blogspot.com/ Blogging around microbiology, with a focus on actinomycetes (a group of bacteria) and the biosynthesis of natural products of pharmaceutical interest (antibiotics, antitumor drugs). And other science stuff. Category: Directory » Science Blogs » Biology Hits: 11 Date added: 2007-09-07 00:10:07 Site average load time: 1.718 Second(s) Fast Faster than 49% of websites Site language: EN

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Big bacteria with lots of DNA
Size matters. That's why there are no insects as big as horses [*], or bacteria as large as to be seen without the use of a microscope. Well, actually, the latter is not true "although a typical bacterial cell is not longer than 5 micrometers, a few species such as Thiomargarita namibiensis... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Charlton Heston: the connection
Now I am explaining the connection between Charlton Heston and actinomycetes. It is indeed a very simple link, as you will see. As a boy, Charlton Heston was not Charlton Heston "not yet" but John Charles Heston and, under this name, he attended New Trier High School at Winnetka, a northern... Read more...
Published 1 week ago

Charlton Heston
A great actor, Charlton Heston, died on April 5th, 2008. Can you find the connection between Heston and actinomycetes? (Please leave your answer as a comment to this post. I will do the same). Charlton Heston's image from Poletti. Image credits for actinomycetes: CDC/Dr. David Berd (PHIL... Read more...
Published 1 month ago

World TB Day
From WHO - A world free of TB (WHO = World Health Organization, TB = tuberculosis): "Tuberculosis is an airborne infectious disease that is preventable and curable. People ill with TB bacteria in their lungs can infect others when they cough. An estimated 1.5 million people died from TB in 2006.... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Too many techniques, too little time
Are you overwhelmed by the progress in biological techniques? Have you recently read about some interesting research but could not follow the basic details of a technical procedure? Are you breathing? In case you do want to understand a little bit more about those ... techniques, you can try... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Women scientists, sixty years ago
New York City, 1949. During the last three years, Elizabeth Hazen had been isolating hundreds of microbes from dirt samples taken at different locations. Many microbiologists at the time were following a path open by Alexander Fleming, Selman Waksman and others, who discovered that some soil... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

How is a cow like an ethanol production plant?
Hummm... dunno, but microbes may have something to say... (Found via Microbeworld) [Please follow the link on the title for reading the complete post with images and links] Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Microbial Biotechnology
Microbial Biotechnology is a new scientific journal, published by Wiley-Blackwell and the Society for Applied Microbiology (UK's oldest microbiological society). The first two issues include research articles, reviews, and web alerts, such as: - Massively parallel pathogen identification using... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

This gun shoots golden bullets (and genes)
The first time I read the term biolistic, I thought it was a misprint. Then I found out it was a chimera-like word, with a "biological" head and a "ballistic" body. The term describes a method for introducing DNA into cells by literally shooting them with microscopic bullets, which have been... Read more...
Published 3 months ago

The Bio-Art Case: The End?
Fresh news on the bio-art case, as read on The Scientist: "A geneticist was sentenced to one year of unsupervised release (no jail time) and a $500 fine for supplying bacteria to an artist, according to the Buffalo News, bringing to an end a well-publicized case that began more than three years... Read more...
Published 3 months ago

Research Blogging
From now on, some of my posts (only those discussing peer-reviewed research) will be indexed by Research Blogging, a community-run non-profit organization. Their web site allows readers to find and share blog posts about peer-reviewed research. Additionally, I will edit the code of some of my... Read more...
Published 3 months ago

The Virus that Cures
The following documentary, entitled The Virus that Cures, was produced in 1997 by the BBC for the Horizon series. The 49-minute video illustrates some aspects related to phage therapy, or the use of bacteriophages (i.e., bacterial viruses) to treat bacterial infections. Phage therapy was... Read more...
Published 3 months ago