Interesting blog post from the BioBE Center worth checking out regarding Unsavory sources of bacteria in urban air referencing a new paper from Noah Fierer and others. Alas the paper is not OpenAccess and even I can’t get a copy of it right now. But it seems interesting …
Just a quick one here. There is an interesting article in “The New Mexican” featuring Jessica Green from the Biology and the Built Environment Center: Researcher: Microbes in buildings not all bad – The Santa Fe New Mexican. The article not only discusses how many microbes are NOT bad for you, but also discusses Jessica …
OK my headline is a bit over the top. But it is reactionary to some over the top claims by a doctor from Arizona worried about germs in play areas. The Sacramento Bee has an article about a crusade by a woman named Erin Carr-Jordan who is apparently trying to rally the troops around the …
Great TED talk yesterday by Jessica Green who is one of the folks in charge of the BioBE Center, another project funded by the Sloan Foundation Indoor Air Program. Here she talks about the relationship between outdoor air and mechanically vented air in hospitals.
When people hear “microbiology of the built environment” they tend to think first of buildings. But the built environment includes so much more, ranging from transportation (cars/planes/space shuttles) to swimming pools to highway bridges. The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has a test facility where they study biofuels. They recently presented some results …
The association between moisture/dampness and negative health indicators (e.g. asthma) is quite well documented. This is usually pinned on an unspecified “mold” although in reality the causative agent(s) is unknown. For an excellent and detailed review of this topic see here. A new study came out this week that looked in particular at the …