by Nancy | 25 Dec 2015 | Hospice, Media, Microbes, science
Some facts about the current Zika virus ‘outbreak’ in Brazil: A few deaths have been reported in people who had been diagnosed with dengue fever and who died due to worsening symptoms. These patients were shown post-mortem to be infected with Zika virus....
by Nancy | 11 Dec 2015 | DIY, Events, Hospice, Media, Microbes
And this year again, Food Hacking Base will be at 32C3 to promote all sorts of weird and mad food hacking. Support them via the link below: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/food-hacking-base-in-hamburg-during-32c3-with-you#/
by Nancy | 8 Dec 2015 | Microbes, Photos, science
A short moment of WAUW! for this artist! Celebrating life’s diversity by creating micro organisms in paper form.. http://www.ufunk.net/en/artistes/rogan-brown/ The image above comes from http://www.ufunk.net/en/artistes/rogan-brown/
by Nancy | 8 Nov 2015 | Hospice, Microbes
Bacillus subtilis natto is a species of bacteria that is used to ferment soy beans and their action results in the Japanese dish called Natto. Natto has powerful smell, strong flavor, and slimy texture. In addition to its use in the cuisine, they are now being...
by Nancy | 10 Oct 2015 | Microbes, Molecular Biology, science
The challenge in detecting a set of viruses simultaneously in clinical samples lies in the large variety of their genomes, i.e. there is no gene that is present in all viruses. With the advent of new sequencing technologies, including high throughput parallel sequence...
by Nancy | 2 Sep 2015 | Microbes, Molecular Biology, science
MIME (Mutational Interference Mapping Experiment) is used to investigate the interaction of RNA with its respective interaction partners in greater detail. In this approach, the RNA of interest is randomly mutated and amplified. The vast pool of resulting mutated RNAs...
