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recent bookmarks from jmPhotoferrotrophic Bacteria Initiated Plate Tectonics in the Neoarchean2023-07-03T10:52:19+00:00
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103553
jmpapers bacteria life tectonics earth climate iron science geologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0ab08c4eb0ae/The hygiene hypothesis doesn't apply to viruses2022-10-14T15:00:16+00:00
https://caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/where-are-we-with-the-hygiene-hypothesis
jmAlmost no virus is protective against allergic disease or other immune diseases. In fact, infections with viruses mostly either contribute to the development of those diseases or worsen them. The opposite is true of bacteria.
Pets are good, though:
We've also noticed that people who live on farms have fewer of these diseases because they're exposed to -- for lack of a better term -- the fecal material of animals. And what we have found is that it's due to these commensal bacteria. That is one of the components that helps us keep a healthy immune system. Most of us will probably not adopt farm life. But we can have a pet, we can have a dog.
]]>pets viruses bacteria hygiene hygiene-hypothesis health immune-system allergies farmshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2dc80a6fe773/Rule that patients must finish antibiotics course is wrong, study says2017-07-27T09:46:20+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/26/rule-patients-must-finish-antibiotics-course-wrong-study-says
jmPatients have traditionally been told that they must complete courses of antibiotics, the theory being that taking too few tablets will allow the bacteria causing their disease to mutate and become resistant to the drug.
But Martin Llewelyn, a professor in infectious diseases at Brighton and Sussex medical school, and colleagues claim that this is not the case. In an analysis in the British Medical Journal, the experts say “the idea that stopping antibiotic treatment early encourages antibiotic resistance is not supported by evidence, while taking antibiotics for longer than necessary increases the risk of resistance”.
]]>health medicine antibiotics bmj bacteriahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:549b58e9f98b/A programming language for E. coli2016-04-04T10:15:44+00:00
http://phys.org/news/2016-03-language-cells.html
jmMIT biological engineers have created a programming language that allows them to rapidly design complex, DNA-encoded circuits that give new functions to living cells. Using this language, anyone can write a program for the function they want, such as detecting and responding to certain environmental conditions. They can then generate a DNA sequence that will achieve it.
"It is literally a programming language for bacteria," says Christopher Voigt, an MIT professor of biological engineering. "You use a text-based language, just like you're programming a computer. Then you take that text and you compile it and it turns it into a DNA sequence that you put into the cell, and the circuit runs inside the cell."
]]>dna mit e-coli bacteria verilog programming coding biohacking sciencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3c173c3fef51/Accretion Disc Series - Clint Fulkerson2015-11-25T17:47:53+00:00
http://clintfulkerson.com/Accretion-Disc-Series
jmalgorithms art graphics vector bacteria petri-dish clint-fulkersonhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f8d70d3ea569/A gut microbe that stops food allergies2014-09-11T14:27:47+00:00
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/08/gut-microbe-stops-food-allergies
jmallergies health food peanuts science research clostridium bacteria gut intestines immune-system mice papers pnashttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:41ae7586457d/This Bacteria is Violating Copyright | tor.com | Science fiction and fantasy | Blog posts2011-04-18T15:41:56+00:00
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/03/this-bacteria-is-violating-copyright
jmcopyright dna bacteria james-joyce joyce-estate frivolous lawsuits copyfight craig-venterhttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a0472a915158/