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Many bacteria are extremely helpful to us. They digest our food, they keep us healthy or they help us in industrial processes. By now, we learned to use bacteria and their superpowers in many different applications. And surely, our bodies would not be the same without our bacterial friends. Unfortunately, …

One of the biggest reasons for our climate change dilemma is the burning of non-renewable fossil fuels. So, to decrease greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, we need to switch to green biofuels as energy sources. One sustainable alternative to petroleum fuel is bioethanol, which is also a lot healthier for …

The Biology and the Built Environment Center (BioBE) is currently seeking a post-doc to investigate fundamental questions surrounding the role of microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi archaea, and protists) in the built environment and in relation to human health outcomes. Learn more and apply here. (https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/527294/post-doctoral-scholar-in-microbial-ecology) Like this: Like Loading… Related

One of the biggest reasons for our climate change dilemma is the burning of non-renewable fossil fuels. So, to decrease greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, we need to switch to green biofuels as energy sources. One sustainable alternative to petroleum fuel is bioethanol, which is also a lot healthier for …

A new viral disease surveillance tool: Indoor dust as a matrix for surveillance of COVID-19, published in mSystems. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, large scale monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 has helped to prevent spread and inform public health decisions. This has largely been done through individual sampling (ie nasal and saliva sample …

Microbial communities grow everywhere and on almost any host, be it humans, plants or animals. And while some microbes come to make their hosts sick, other mirobes are there to help and protect them. This is a story of both types of microbes and an unusual host: amphibians. Yes, also …

About a month ago I posted a request for information about guidance for school reopening. See the post here: https://microbe.net/2021/02/06/compiling-information-about-covid19-transmission-masks-filtration-schools-etc/ I spent a while looking at the responses and also soliciting some more and ended up with a few really good documents / sites with information about school reopening.  These …

Have you heard of bacterial glue? Glue produced by bacteria so that they stick themselves to (almost) any kind of surface? Bacterial glue that if you covered a space the size of your index fingernail with it, it could hold a weight of up to 680 kg. This is almost …

It’s a New Year! What’s your New Year’s resolution? Are you trying to eat healthier by eating microbially fermented foods full of nutrients? Or do you want to be more friendly to the environment by using green bio-plastics? Keeping this planet green and healthy is a great New Year’s resolution. …

Bacteria are constantly at war. Either they are attacked by other bacteria, or by other microbes like viruses. For a virus to survive, it needs another living organism. Viruses infect any organism that has its own metabolism: animals, humans, fungi or even bacteria. But none of these organisms likes being …