Mikroorganizmalar ve Çeşitlilik

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 …

Trying to collect some of the various information about COVID19 transmission and related topics including masks, schools, CO2, variants, etc. Mostly from Twitter threads and News articles Masks Wall Street Journal: Double Face Masks? N95? Protect Yourself Against New Covid-19 Variants With These Mask Upgrades Some important lines Double masking …

We live in a wired world. Everything is connected and our lives depend more and more on technology and electrical devices. All electronic materials that we use, are produced with lots of energy, harsh processing and/or toxic chemicals. Many electronic devices and batteries are considered disposable. But these are not …

The human body developed amazing mechanisms to fight off bacterial pathogens. And yet, many bacteria learned to swim through our bodies as if nothing was in their ways. As if there was no obstacle, no immune system to stop them. Many of our organs have a slimy mucus which is …

I am compiling some materials on science driven guidelines for how to decide if and how to keep open and/or reopen schools in the face of COVID19. Here are some I have compiled that I seem to be useful.  I would love other examples. (Updated 12/21 at 3 PM) National …

You may know that microbes are helping to save the planet, but did you know they are also helping to save your meal? Microbes are necessary for many of our favorite foods, such as bread, cheese, and chocolate, and the beverages we wash them down with, like beer and wine! …

This one has been getting a lot of popular media attention… and really the title says it all “Evidence of Long-Distance Droplet Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by Direct Air Flow in a Restaurant in Korea”.  This study describes a transmission that took place at over 20 feet in only 5 minutes… …

Bacteria can be extremely nasty to each other. They have killer weapons to deliver lethal toxins into other microbes. Like this, they conquer new space wherever they go. But some bacteria are even more sneaky than that. They destroy the houses that bacteria live in. This leaves the prey exposed …

Another quick post here.  “Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA contamination of inanimate surfaces and virus viability in a health care emergency unit.” One of several studies that have found the presence of viral RNA in a healthcare setting, but who were unable to culture virus from surfaces there.  …