New papers on microbiology of the built environment, April 13, 2016

By Elisabeth Bik Posted in Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)

Posted on April 13, 2016March 14, 2017

New papers on the intersection of human activities and microbes, selected from my daily MicrobiomeDigest blog. Microbes in the house Generation and Characterization of Indoor Fungal Aerosols for Inhalation Studies – Anne Mette Madsen – Applied and Environmental Microbiology (OA) (…) The aim of this study was to develop an inhalation exposure system to be able to examine …

Question about biowalls: Where’s the data?

By David Coil Posted in News

Posted on September 7, 2012September 10, 2012

So here’s a question. Every couple of weeks I see articles about the wonderful benefits of having plants indoors. However, we’ve published in the past about how there’s little to no evidence that plants actually do anything meaningful in terms of indoor air quality (see here and here). The new rage seems to be biowalls… …