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.
Just posting some links to some posts from my Tree of Life blog that may be of interest to the microBEnet blog readers. Wow – Google Scholar “Updates” a big step forward in sifting through the scientific literature Scifoo Notes via Storify A centralized journal commenting system? Who would comment there? Volunteers? Episode of Radio …
NOTE: This is a cross-post that I had originally published at Deep-sea News California has been a big transition for me. I mean big. Not only am I now living in the sun-drenched utopia I have long pined for (a climate which finally meets my minimum temperature preference of 90F), but I also have leaped …
I really love Wordle and Tag Clouds. Here is one for the microBEnet blog. For the original version at Wordle see here.
Just a quick one here — been pointed to the existence of a “self-sterilizing” keyboard (e.g., Brier Dudleys Blog | FDA OKs Vioguards germ-killing keyboard | Seattle Times Newspaper.) from a company called Vioguard. Clearly keyboards could be a “breeding” ground for nasty microbes so cleaning keyboards, especially those used in hospitals, seems like a good …
Just a follow up on an earlier post about microbes on hospital workers clothing. There is an interesting editorial responding to the news from the recent study that may be of interest: Second Opinion: Bacteria hitchhikes on hospital apparel – Milford, MA – The Milford Daily News. Clearly, we need to think about clothing as …
Just another cross posting here of some links to posts on my “Tree of Life” blog that may be of interest to microBEnet: C-DEBI Research Support > Request for Research Proposals Great paper showing the potential power of comparative and evolutionary genomics in #PLoS Genetics Sharing what I have been learning about sharing audio synched …
Just a quick one here. I have written some recent posts on my “Tree of Life” blog that may be of interest to some of the readers here. Here are the links: More on ‘phylogenomics’ – as in functional prediction w/ phylogeny Playing around with CloVR – cloud computing bioinformatics system I think …