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Showing posts with label Biotechnology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biotechnology. Show all posts
Friday, October 16, 2015

Finding Bifido

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Bioinformatics; noun plural but singular in construction bio · in · for · mat · ics \ ˌ bī-ō-in-fər- ˈ ma-tiks\ ...the collection, class...
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Thursday, February 12, 2015

American Gut Project Data Mining Tutorial

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Sorry, non-geeky types...most boring blog post ever!  I'm putting this up as a resource for anyone who wants to try it out.  If you do, ...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

First Semester Finished!

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Woo-hoo! Party time at the Farthest North Frat House! "I Tappa Kegga" rulez! All finished with my first semester of grad school...
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Monday, November 10, 2014

The Future of Antibiotics

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This is the last in my weekly antibiotics updates.  I hope you enjoyed them. The enormity of our love affair with antibiotics is stagger...
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Monday, November 3, 2014

Resilience to antibiotic administration

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If I’ve painted a bleak picture these last few weeks, don’t despair.  As I’ve said, antibiotics save lives—it’s the overuse of antibiotics...
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Monday, October 27, 2014

Effects of antibiotic use

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While antibiotics have saved countless lives that would have been lost due to infection, they are a double-edged sword.  Antibiotics ar...
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Monday, October 20, 2014

Antibiotic Proliferation

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There is a staggering array of antibiotics available to the modern clinician, from the old standby, penicillin, to the newest antibioti...
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Monday, October 13, 2014

Mass Production of Antibiotics

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Since the discovery of antibiotics, natural products have been used as killers of disease causing bacteria.  This has prevented untold ...
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Monday, October 6, 2014

Evolution in Action—Right Before your Very Eyes!

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With every dose of antibiotics a person receives, the microbes that survive the medicine will be “antibiotic resistant.”  These antibio...
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Monday, September 29, 2014

The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance

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Microbes developed interactive signalling systems over billions of years.  Scientists do not have a complete grasp on how antibiotics a...
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Monday, September 22, 2014

The Winds of War

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Though the discovery of antibiotics went largely unnoticed, World War II changed everything. By 1945 Fleming’s penicillin was in full ...
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Monday, September 15, 2014

Antibiotic Pioneers

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In 1928, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming was fiddling around with a strange mold he found growing on a Petri dish. This mold was kno...
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Monday, September 8, 2014

Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance

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The antibiotic era is not confined to modern day. Tetracycline, an antibiotic first isolated from Actinobacteria in the dirt, is a cheap ...
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Friday, September 5, 2014

RS2 vs RS3 Put to the (Gut) Test! Part 2

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I love all of the gut tests available to us now!  The two that have gotten the most attention are American Gut and uBiome .  Neither requir...
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Beet Kvass

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Summertime at my house means beet kvass. Got probiotics? Kvass is the forerunner to a host of water fermented probiotic drinks such...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Vinegar Magic

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Yesterday I got an out-of-the-blue email from one of my old lurker buddies asking about 'wild fruit vinegars.' Christine, aka, WildC...
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Friday, July 18, 2014

My New 'Schtick'...Ancestral Biotechnology

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Here's me swimming in our muddy farm pond circa 1975.  Before drying off, we had to pick off the leaches between our toes.  I can't ...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Ancestral Biotechnology...hmmmmmm

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Chaga                                                                A couple months ago I found out that I'm eligible for the ...
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