I’m in the 19-range of my beginning-to-end read of the AMA Manual of Style, and I find my throughhiking metaphor still holds up. Not only am I walking through places that a section hiker might not find worth the time (charts, vocabulary lists), but my pace and milage are heavily Read more…
In findings published today in Current Biology, scientists from the University of California, Riverside report that plants’ relationships with their nitrogen-fixing rhizobacteria are far more complex than previously realized, or rather, the relationships among those bacteria complicate them. The research team infected initially bacteria-free Acmispon strigosus with eight different strains Read more…
COVID-19 may have an impact on some key players in human health and disease prevention—our symbiotic gut bacteria. During the pandemic scientists noted the correlation between reduced diversity in the intestinal flora—fewer species of microbes—and more intense cases of COVID-19. But, per the classic warning about correlation and causation, research Read more…
In findings published this year in Water Research X, scientists from Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology report that viruses may pose a previously unrecognized threat to some of our most important tamed species: The bacteria in our wastewater treatment plants. A healthy wastewater treatment plant teems with tireless but benign Read more…
In findings published October 14 in Cell, researchers from Harvard Medical School report that physical pain may do more than alert the conscious mind to injury. It may provide some of humanity’s most important partners, our symbiotic gut bacteria, with the environment they need to help us thrive. The researchers Read more…