Arizona State University: The fog is alive: Researchers discover bacteria in fog droplets clear toxins from air. “Her ASU research team found that bacteria floating in tiny fog droplets are alive, growing and — quite helpfully — breaking down pollutants in the air. The study, published this week in mBio, changes how we think about fog. It’s not a sterile mist, nor is it a sea of microbes […]

Skin flora (Microbiology 🦠)

Skin flora, also called skin microbiota, refers to microbiota that reside on the skin, typically human skin. Many of them are bacteria of which there are around 1,000 species upon human skin from nineteen phyla. Most are found in the superficial layers of the epidermis and the upper parts of hair follicles. Skin flora is usually non-pathogenic, ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_flora

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Placental microbiome (Microbiology 🦠)

The placental microbiome is the nonpathogenic, commensal bacteria claimed to be present in a healthy human placenta and is distinct from bacteria that cause infection and preterm birth in chorioamnionitis. Until recently, the healthy placenta was considered to be a sterile organ but now genera and species have been identif...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placental_microbiome

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🧫 Gram staining simplifies bacterial identification 🔬, revealing Gram-positive and Gram-negative differences—an essential microbiology lab technique students must master 📚.

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People who are not biology experts can now do hard wet lab tasks using multimodal AI models.

https://www.aisi.gov.uk/frontier-ai-trends-report

Who here with no lab experience wants to take on some hard wet lab tasks and report back to us?

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#KnowledgeByte: Today is Birth Anniversary of German physician and bacteriologist Robert Koch.

Regarded as the "father of medical #Bacteriology", Koch defined his celebrated criteria (known as Koch's #Postulates) - judging whether a given bacteria is the cause of a given disease.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Kochs-postulates-5c0e48dfc6e05f0018dd90c2

#OnThisDay #UNICEF was established (1946).

The #Kyoto #Protocol was adopted (1997).

"Mona Lisa" recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum (1913).

Birth Anniversary of Robert Koch (1843) - founder of modern #Bacteriology.

Happy Birthday Viswanathan Anand (1969) - #Chess #Grandmaster and a former World Chess Champion.

Today is International #MountainDay.

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