You could say there are a ‘crapload’ of viruses in the human gut. Luckily, most of these do not attack our cells, but instead feed on bacteria.
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Miniaturized laboratory equipment is making it easier to identify airborne pathogens in the field, but there’s still work ahead to be able to instantly determine if a room is safe or contaminated.
Superfast DNA analysis is now being used to crack medical mysteries when physicians can’t figure out whether an infectious microbe is causing the disease.
Massive online DNA databases can be used as a resource to discover viruses – even if the data had not been explicitly collected for that purpose.
Microbes have the ability to survive in extremely hot and cold conditions. This makes them invaluable tools for research: they can teach us how life has evolved and how we survive.
Forget the pith helmet and butterfly net. Discovering biodiversity now is much more about metagenomics and the 0’s and 1’s of digital databases.
In 1994, a crypt containing 242 bodies was discovered in Vác, Hungary. Many of the bodies were naturally mummified, including the remains of a woman, Terézia Hausmann, who died apparently from tuberculosis…
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, UCL
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Research Professor of Ecosystem Science and Management, Penn State
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Director, Genomics Research Institute; Director, Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria
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Junior research fellow in virus evolution, University of Oxford
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Professor of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Microbiology, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland
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Bayard D. Clarkson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Clarkson University
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Associate Professor of Biology, Clarkson University
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Research Associate, Center for Air and Aquatic Resources Engineering and Science, Clarkson University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
