Microbiology Blog of the Day: All Creatures Great AND Small: Preaching Microbial Supremacy!

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. Today’s blog: All Creatures Great AND Small: Preaching Microbial Supremacy!. Author: Mark Martin from the University of Puget Sound Tagline: Ruminations on the teaching of and research in …

microBEnet Microbiology blog of the day: Aetiology from Tara Smith

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 …

microBEnet Microbiology blog of the day: Avian Flu Diary

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 & …

Call me a skeptic but “beneficial microorganisms” in natural pools/ponds?

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. …