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A naturally occurring clay shows promise as an antibiotic

Julian Davies (University of British Columbia) and his team tested the clay as an antibiotic against various bacteria. “It’s been almost all surprises since then,” he says. Solutions of the clay can kill 16 different strains of multidrug-resistant bacteria that commonly infect hospital patients!

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Pet exposure may reduce allergy and obesity

If you need a reason to become a dog lover, how about their ability to help protect kids from allergies and obesity?

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Did you know that gut microbes can affect your mood?

Microbes can play games with the mind!

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Interesting facts about streptomycetes

Did you know that streptomycetes produce that wonderful earthy forest scent that follows a shower of rain?

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Fungus: The Plastic of the Future

Will we replace plastic with fungus-based materials in the future?

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BioLogic

Initiated from MIT Media Lab, BioLogic is an attempt of programming the living organisms and inventing responsive and transformable interfaces of the future.

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Microbial art

The Agar Art Contest requires contestants to create a picture in a petri dish using microbes as paint. There were 85 entrants this year and the results were pretty amazing. The image above is called ‘Cell to Cell’ and was the people’s choice award with over 3,500 likes in the Facebook album.

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Ultra-Small Bacteria – The Smallest Life Forms On Earth?

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Indoor Microbiome Animation

Microbes are all around us, on us and within us. Here’s the animation of the built environment microbiome created by the BioBE Center with Cameron Slayden (Cosmocyte) and funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 

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Microbiology Christmas Tree

Mikrobi su svemogući, pa mogu  biti i ukras na božićnom drvcu. Ako imate 12 sekundi pogledajte video.

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Pandoravirusi – otkriće najvećih i najneobičnijih virusa do sada

Skupina francuskih i švedskih znanstvenika koju su vodili Chantal Abergel i Jean-Michel Claverie, otkrivač dosad najvećih i najkompleksnijih Mimi i Megavirusa, objavila je prošli tjedan u časopisu Science (Philipp et al., 2013, Science 341 (6143): 281-286.) otkriće novog roda Pandoravirus. Kao i prethodno otkriveni virusi orijaške kategorije koji parazitiraju u amebama i ovi imaju vrlo kompleksne genome koji nadilaze po veličini one parazitskih bakterija.

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Scientists combine bird and swine flus to create mutant airborne virus

Researchers in China have created a batch of designer viruses by selectively combining genes from the H5N1 bird flu virus with those of the H1N1 swine flu strain. This reassortment process — which can happen naturally in nature — resulted in several hybridized strains that were able spread through the air and infect mammals.

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