infectious linkage
Originally published at Saint Nickanuck of the Tundra. You can comment here or there.
- The wreckage of the Titanic is being consumed by a multi-species superorganism that utilizes quorum sensing to communicate between different types of microbes.
- Variable environmental factors in space seem to cause medications to lose potency far more quickly than planetside on earth, making for an added potential challenge to prolonged manned spaceflight.
- Honey has long been known for it’s antibacterial and wound healing properties, and new research shows that it specifically may inhibit bacterial biofilm formation, as well as positively affect resistance genes in said bacteria to antibiotics.
- A Legionella outbreak at the Playboy mansion has been traced to a hot tub (shock of shocks) through the use of Twitter, Facebook, and website epidemiological tracking methods.