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 …
Personally I think the holiday season starts way too early… but given the fact that Christmas trees are already on sale (at least here in CA) I figured I could post about this article I came across today: Wyse DM & Malloch D. 1970. Christmas tree allergy: mould and pollen studies. CMA Journal 103: 1272-1276. …
Hmm – in this story in the LA Times: Natural swimming ponds – latimes.com there is a discussion of a move towards more “natural” swimming pools using less chlorine. And there is a part of the article of which I am deeply skeptical BioNova pools, as well as those designed locally by Environmental Sculpturing, are biologically active. …
Another good indoor microbiology video from the BioBE Center
Love this, from Ashley Bateman and the BioBE Center.
Just a quick post here. There is a detailed blog post of interest from Caitlin Knight of Anthrophysis discussing a recent PLoS One paper on bacteria in office spaces: Unseen Coworkers: Office Space Bacteria. We have written about this paper a bit here before: The hidden diversity of offices — what microbes are lurking there? …
It sounds so nice and catchy. Priobiotics for buildings. We have written about it here are few times Probiotics for buildings in action? Interesting but can’t verify Probiotics for buildings: A potential future application of current work on microbes in buildings Though I have not found any published science behind this movement there is more …
In the “Extremo File” blog, Jeffrey Marlow discussed recent work from the BioBE Center: Is Your Office Building Trying to Kill You? | Wired Science | Wired.com. The post discusses how studies of microbial ecology are moving from the outdoors to the indoors and that is a useful message to get across. I presume the post …
Eww … see Fish Tank Granuloma Caused by Mycobacterium marinum. Seems that this Mycobacterium species commonly infects people who come into contact with marine mammals and fish tanks. Gross but worth checking out.