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Reviewer number two
Everyone has stories about reviewer number three, but what about the thoughtful and thorough reviewers?
High, dry and very, very chilly.
Originally thought to be sterile, the Dry Valleys in Antarctica have been revealed to play home to a functioning microbial ecosystem, although this is limited at high elevation according to a paper published in The ISME Journal.
Absorbance "a tool to measure Growth"
The tool to measure bacterial growth is absorbance (600nm). I am amazed to measure different growth phases of bacterial growth by absorbance.
Iceman’s stomach bug may shed new light on his origins
5300-year-old Helicobacter pylori genome of the Iceman
Back to the beginning
It is always interesting reading the original publications- a sort of history of infectious disease- for commonplace infection control problems today
Regaining our humanity
A manuscript posted in bioRxiv suggests that we need to rethink the often used maxim that there are 10 times more bacteria in and on our bodies than our own cells