Going through the list of Microbiology Blogs I have curated at microBEnet and going to try to feature one of the every day or so with a mini description. And just going to do this alphabetically. So todays blog is: blog.aids.gov – HIV Policy & Programs. Research. New Media.. Authors: many including these from recent posts: Gail …
Wow – this is disturbing: VA under scrutiny after Legionnaires’ cases in Pittsburgh – CNN.com. Seems that there has been an outbreak of Legionnaires’ at the VA hospital in Pittsburgh and apparently the hospital officials new knew about problems for a year but did not reveal this. For more on this see Doyle, Casey seek investigations …
Going through the list of Microbiology Blogs I have curated at microBEnet and going to try to feature one of the every day or so with a mini description. And just going to do this alphabetically. So todays blog is: Aetiology. Author: Tara C. Smith Tagline: Discussing causes, origins, evolution, and implications of disease and other phenomena Recent …
Going through the list of Microbiology Blogs I have curated at microBEnet and going to try to feature one of the every day or so. And just going to do this alphabetically. So todays blog is Avian Flu Diary. Author: Michael Coston Tagline: Covering Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza, H5N1 `Bird Flu, Emerging Infectious Diseases, public health, community & …
Interesting article via Mashable (from the Atlantic) in September bu How NASA Keeps Earth’s Germs Out of Space. It discusses how to keep the sites where space equipment is built clean and the general issue of planetary protection. Stay tuned for more posts about space as we are involved in a project to sample microbes on …
The 15th Workshop of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC15) April 22-24, 2013, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Registration and EasyChair abstract submission website now open. Theme: Standards-enabled Research in Genomics URL: http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_15 The 15th Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC15) meeting will be held at NIH (Bethesda, Maryland) from April 22-24th. This meeting will highlight the utilization of genome …
One the one hand this story represents an important set of findings: Hospital Rooms Can Be Bacteria Reservoirs : Personal Liberty Digestâ„¢. Main point: Hospital rooms are not getting to be germ free after cleaning. And in this case they focused on rooms where the recently discharged patient had a history of infection with multidrug resistant …
Quick post here. For those of you who eat or cook poultry this may interest you: Why you shouldn’t wash chicken before cooking – The Times of India. The article discusses the results of a survey done by News.com.au on whether people wash their poultry before cooking it. Seems that this is quite common in some places. …
Well this is both weird and very interesting: 3D houses “grown” like bones | SmartPlanet. Sort of a combination of 3D printing, bioinspired design, and architecture. Not sure what the future of this is but if they want to have walls that grow / respond to stresses they could consider making them actually alive. Maybe it …
Not sure what to make of this still but it certainly is a case of microbes in the built environment: Living Concrete Fixes Its Own Cracks With Built-in Bacteria. Not sure why the Malaysian Digest is covering this but it still intrigues me and thought it might be of interest.