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Bonnie Bassler | How Bacteria “Talk”
Bonnie Bassler studies how bacteria can communicate with one another, through chemical signals, to act as a unit. Her work could pave the way for new, more potent medicine.
“You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.” - Bonnie Bassler
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posted 17 May, 2013
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Russian scientists find “unclassified” bacterial life under Antarctic lake
Preliminary results from a water sample from the submerged Antarctic Lake Vostok are in, and Russian scientists have found bacterial life way down there, but as far as they can tell, it’s not from any known subkingdom.
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posted 09 March, 2013
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Bacteria found deep under the Antarctic ice
After drilling half a mile into the ice, researchers snapped this photo from the submerged Lake Whillans in Antartica. Unlike the Russian effort in their own icy submerged lake research, this venture discovered bacteria living down there in the isolated deep dark waters.
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posted 07 February, 2013
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If the Five Second Rule isn’t true, what is the length of time before something gets cooties from being dropped on the floor?
This myth has been debunked multiple times, so Vsauce asks a different question: is there a period of time, however small, that one can theoretically pick up the food before bacteria gets to it?
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posted 04 December, 2012
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Researchers discover a bacteria that shits pure gold
Being able to shit gold has been a dream of both kings and peasants for thousands of years, but scientists have discovered a bacteria that does just that. GOLD FOR EVERYBODY.
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posted 10 October, 2012
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Probiotic yogurt drink turns your poop different colors to tell you what’s wrong
If you’ve ever hoped that you could self-diagnose a wide range of intestinal issues with rainbow colored poo, E. Chromi might become your new beverage of choice. The probiotic drink is now used just to detect the presence of E. coli, but one day will be able to tell you if you have colon cancer, worms, rotavirus or a stomach ulcer. Magic rainbow poo.
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posted 22 June, 2012
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Your future hard drives could be grown from magnetic bacteria
Even though many companies are moving towards flash storage as prices of flash storage go down, there might still be a place for magnetic media for quite some time. And in the future, your magnetic hard drives might not be milled from metal, but grown from colonies of magnetic bacteria.
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posted 10 May, 2012
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Bacteria attack each other with poisonous, spring-loaded daggers
Bacteria certainly aren’t harmless by any means, but looking at them, they don’t look at big and mean and scary like a lion or a T-rex. But these microscopic creatures use more than just chemical warfare— it turns out that some bacteria go all Assassin’s Creed on other bacteria, using poisonous spring-loaded daggers to shank a bitch in the back.
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posted 29 February, 2012
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Turning living bacteria into biopixels for fun and profit
Biologists at the University of California San Diego have grouped colonies of fluorescent bacteria into “biopixels” that can be used to form the living equivalent of a neon sign. So far, their largest signs have used 13,000 biopixels, made up of over 50 million individual bacterial cells.
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posted 06 January, 2012
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Look at these fucking hipster microbes.
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posted 08 September, 2011
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New technology makes textiles permanently germ free, you slob
How many days have you been wearing that same pair of jeans? No, actually I don’t want to know. But in the future, that won’t matter, because your clothes won’t collect germs at all, and it’s an accumulation of bacteria that make your clothes stink. But with new technology that makes textiles permanently germ-free, you’ll be able to wear that same pair of tighty whities with confidence that your ball funk isn’t ruining the party.
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posted 09 July, 2011
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So there’s 660 previously undiscovered strains of bacteria living in your belly button
How well do you know your belly button? When was the last time that you stared into your navel to discover new truths? Some scientists did just that and came away identifying some 1400 strains of bacteria living in your tiny navel, 662 of which had never been discovered before. You’ve got a whole unknown world sitting on your belly button.
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posted 06 July, 2011
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NASA scientists discover the fossilized remains of alien bacterial life on a meteorite
After 10 years of study, Richard B. Hoover from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center feels certain that he’s found the fossilized remains of extraterrestrial bacteria in several meteorites.
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posted 06 March, 2011
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Meet the bacteria that comes in seven different sexes
If you have enough trouble navigating the world of two sexes, imagine if you were a Tetrahymena thermophila, a bacteria that has seven distinct genders to deal with. The good news is that all seven of them are completely compatible with each other, making for what I can only imagine as one wild bacteria party.
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posted 03 March, 2011
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So wait… did NASA not discover arsenic-based life after all?
Last week, NASA was nearly on the verge of peeing itself like an excited puppy when it announced that it has discovered bacterial life in a lake in California that built its DNA on a backbone of arsenic rather than phosphorus rather than every other living thing on the planet. But now it appears that this may not be correct and NASA may have been sloppy, premature and amateurish in publishing its reports.
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posted 08 December, 2010
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