bacteria

This Easter weekend we had another one of those Trump moments where you think to yourself: Is this the dumbest man alive? Why does he pretend to know stuff when he makes it so obvious to (almost) everybody that he doesn't? 49 sec:"The germ has gotten brilliant" Donald Trump llL_9dLKb3c He is...

This paragraph is from an article on Shigellosis, an intestinal infection which is causing some concern in the US at the moment: Drug resistance develops when bacteria comes into contact with antibiotics at doses that are too low to kill them. When that happens, bacteria adapts to the drug and...

Watching an old episode of Babylon 5 recently, I began wondering about the plausibility of methane breathing aliens (specifically, methane breathing motile intelligent aliens). Science fiction is full of methane breathing aliens, but how realistic are they? To make use of methane, it'd need to...

Re: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/50088913/ns/today-today_tech/t/nickel-eating-bacteria-blamed-worlds-worst-extinction/?lite=obnetwork Evidence/process supporting the idea that nickel using bacteria in Earth's oceans caused the death of much of the life in them in the latter part of the...

There is a cool article in the Oct. 22 NewYorker Magazine. It discusses the relationship between us and our microbes, which is quite complex and full of surprises. The article is called "Germs are us" by Michael Specter. I'm having trouble linking it, but its well worth a read.

Here's a question for DOC, edge, AvalonXQ and any other creationists on this forum: What did viruses do before the Fall of Man? Creationists explain such evils as predation and parasitism as resulting from God's curse on g=creation following the Fall of Man. It's their way of dealing with the...

Does anyone here drink 'raw' milk, as in, fresh from the cow? I ask because my family has recently been offered some, free of charge, from an acquaintance dairy farmer. I understand that there is some debate about the health benefits/risks associated with its consumption. This arises due to the...

I was speaking to a friend of mine about photovoltaic cell chemistry, and to be honest the majority of it went way over my head, but the issue of efficiency came up. As I was able to comprehend it, the issue is that once the electrons get bumped around by the incoming photons, the resultant...

The silly naturopath in my city writes a semi-regular article for the local weekly paper. One of the things she mentioned in this issue was that she had attended a "biological medicine" conference where she learned the new theory that viruses, bacteria, and parasites were simply the same...

When my father passed away in December, I inherited, among other things, his microscope. Lately, I've been going out and collecting bits of gutter water, moss, lichen, and such; mixing it together, and then looking at random drops of it through this microscope. Just last night, I felt...

Hi Guys, Hopefully someone can help. My Mum puts a piece of silver in drinking tap water when she keeps it in the fridge (or whereever) she said that silver keeps water clean and doesn't make it go stale. She said it's been used for ages and so on... Does anyone know anything about this...

Sounds like woo woo hogwash, but this is really cool: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11544353 Bacteria do communicate with each other. I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this before, so I had to share. I'm not sure if it is spelled out online, but I saw the person who coined the term...

I stumbled across this today, and would like verification. Specifically, I'm not familiar with New Scientist magazine, and I don't know how reliable a source they are. Would anyone care to comment?

Hi to all, this is my first post here, apologies if this has been asked before, but I can't find the answer. I'm sceptical to the core of my being, it gets me into all sorts of trouble really. A friend of mine has mentioned there is "scientific proof" that reiki has a measurable effect on...

I recently decided to look up some information on hand sanitisers, which have been extensively advertised here in the past couple of years. The advertising consists mostly of statements to the effect that the solution "kills 99.99% of germs" (or harmful germs). This sounded like an...

An interesting essay appears in today's NY Times at the following URL detailing efforts to produce poison (tetrodotoxin) free puffer fish .....amazingly and paradoxically some fugu groups are fighting it. Yes, this belongs in science...

The origin of life is a crucial part (if not the most important question) of the Theist/Atheist debate. Yet I contend that most atheists are not aware that all life (the blue whales, the insects, the elephants, the octopuses, the trees in the redwood forests, the butterflies, the cactus, the...

Hello, In view of smaller size, wide presence and other chracteristics, how much microbes can influence our daily life? Can these be the reciever, carrier, preserver, interpreter and passer of our small small informations? [spy] In one thought; Bacteria can control their Temperature...

Any ideas if or how they work. Their are lots of drinks in my local supermarket with 'good bacteria' in them. How do these bacteria get past the acid in my stomach. I can only think of a Saving Private Ryan scenario where the few survivors who make it through the opening stage get to go on and...

Split from Medicine should be taught in high school Blutoski posted some interesting stuff about bacteria: And while the post only briefly touched on the plasmids needing a particular density to propagate, that was the issue that caught my attention. (Plasmids are little vessels that carry...

A while ago, I decided I was going to make my sandwiches and stir-fries more interesting, and began looking for some extra vegetables I could put in. I heard that sprouts were very healthful, since they contained nutrients needed to help grow into a real plant. So I got a box of them, and...

I'll be fairly concise here - how does E. Coli get into our intestines?

http://http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20061127/sc_space/galacticbabyboominfluencedlifeonearth An interesting article. It seems that studying cosmic rays and their effects on genes will help us go a long way towards understanding how life on Earth made the leap from bacteria and algae into more...

From the Skeptoid podcast, investigating whether magnets are good for koi pond water (they are hugely prevalent among koi pond owners, and a de facto component of most new ponds). Do magnetotactic bacteria hold some clue that might answer this question? Listen...

We have all heard about the flesh eating bacteria and we have all heard about snake bite. This is some pretty exciting news linking the two. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide get strep infections and this new published research has revealed that a toxin in snake venom which necrotizes...

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70882-0.html?tw=wn_index_2 My question; what is a 16 year old doing reading Nature? Athon

I stopped in at a fast food joint while on a long drive the other day and noticed a UV light hung outside the restrooms to kill bacteria I guess. The first time I saw this was at a emergency room by the door coming into the emergency room. The light was huge and powerful. By hanging these...

I've noticed when watching wildlife programmes on the TV that many very venomous animals don't synthesise the toxins directly but utilise little pouches of symbiotic bacteria to do it for them. Why is is? Is it just that evolution made use of some bacteria that happened to be toxic for...

You're getting more than you bargain for at the cosmetic counter according to a news report I heard last evening: http://www.prevention.com/article/0,5778,s1-5-123-146-4961-1,00.html http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050426/news_lz1c26makeup.html...

Do you the way to remove the odour of garlic from your hands? Use the back of your stainless steel knife and scap your hands. This is a common trick. But look what I read in Science Daily! :eek: Read the whole article http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050509170837.htm This...