Lager Beer’s Mystery Yeast – ScienceNOW
“Lager may have its roots in Bavaria, but a key ingredient arrived from halfway around the world. Scientists have discovered that the yeast used to brew t...
Tag: biology
PLoS Genetics: A Broad Brush, Global Overview of Bacterial Sexuality
“These results have several implications. Firstly, plasmids and ICEs share the same protein families, and should be considered as alternative vehicles for...
Living to 100 and Beyond – WSJ.com
“In Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels,” Gulliver encounters a small group of immortals, the struldbrugs. “Those excellent...
PLoS Biology: Endosymbiosis: Lessons in Conflict Resolution
“In sum, the past few years have witnessed a surge of new empirical and theoretical approaches to understand the dynamics of bacterial–insect relationship...
Three Snug Bugs – ScienceNOW
“Mealybugs are the Russian nesting dolls of the animal world. Their bodies harbor a bacterium that helps them turn plant sap into usable nutrients, and th...
A Bug in a Bug in a Bug – ScienceNOW
“But when Von Dohlen and her student Shawn Kohler examined the mealybugs’ so-called “symbiotic spheres,” long assumed to be host structu...
James King – speculative deisgner
Here’s another speaker for my proposed panel for SXSW [http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/10348] on DIYbio. James King is a speculative designer worki...
Cathal Garvey – indie biotech
As you might be aware, I proposed a panel for SXSW [http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/10348] on DIYbio. One person who I think epitomizes DIYbio is Cathal ...
Impact of Endofungal Bacteria on Infection Biology, Food Safety, and Drug Development: PLoS Pathogens
“The filamentous mould Rhizopus microsporus is a member of the zygomycetes (lower fungi). While some strains serve as food fermenting fungi, others repres...
Bacteria Flash Like Christmas Lights – ScienceNOW
“But why would it need to, even for a second? The researchers aren’t sure, but they believe that depolarizing their membranes may allow the bacteria...