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Paper generating a lot of buzz: Nucleic acid purification from plants, animals and microbes in under 30 seconds

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in .Featured Bioinformatics Sequencing
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Well, this paper is generating a lot of buzz on social media.  Nucleic acid purification from plants, animals and microbes in under 30 seconds.  For example see Eric Topol’s Tweet about it Now this is innovative: paper dipstick extraction of DNA or RNA in < 30 seconds https://t.co/RKuLsAW7fM @PLOSBiology @UQ_News pic.twitter.com/FH1krTFYMw — Eric Topol (@EricTopol) …

New papers on microbiology of the built environment, May 31, 2016

By Elisabeth Bik   Posted in Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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Microbes in the house Urban Dust Microbiome: Impact on Later Atopy and Wheezing – Christina Tischer – Environmental Health Perspectives (OA) Investigations in urban areas have just begun to explore how the indoor dust microbiome may affect the pathogenesis of asthma and allery. We aimed to investigate the early fungal and bacterial microbiome in house dust …