About Ben Libberton
I'm a freelance science communicator, formerly a Postdoc in the biofilm field. I'm interested in how bacteria cause disease and look to technology to produce novel tools to study and ultimately prevent infection.
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Hi Iqbal, thanks for the question. Unfortunately I wasn't one of the authors so I don't have access to the strains. You can contact them directly though using the contact info on the article its...
Nice post on a fantastic paper! Out of curiosity, I noticed that you didn't use the word epigenetics in the paper. Would you consider this to be epigenetics or something different?
Great summary! Thanks for linking to the Nature News and the podcast as well, it's nice to have everything together in one place :)
Fascinating story! Thanks for telling it here.
The only Olympics anyone wants to see!
OUTRAGEOUS! Bacteria are way better than fungi.
Seriously, though - this is a great idea.
Yes, let's all go out there and gather data! This is a cool story although I won't lie, when I read the title I thought someone had already done the microbiome of the gravitational waves (and in fa...
New uses for drugs that are already approved! This is a great idea, clinical trials must be round the corner right? Or would they not have to do any if the drug is already in use?