“Rhodotorula mucilaginosa cells, methylene blue stain, magnification 400 x, notice the oval yeast cells as well as filamentous structures (pseudohyphae).” - via Wikimedia Commons
USAmerican problems in providing healthcare are resulting in the spread of antibacterial-resistant strains.
On top of the overuse of antibiotics contributing to the development of antibacterial-resistant bacteria, people who leave their entire country to access affordable medical care are at a very high risk of spreading resistant bacteria around. This study, for example, found that 30% of international travellers returned with a antimicrobial resistant bacterium. Now consider that that is among completely healthy travellers, and that hospitals tend to be hotbeds for antibiotic and antimicrobial resistant strains of bacteria.
Not only is it dangerous for the individual to leave the country for healthcare (what if you don’t speak the language? Do you have a place to safely recover there? What if you have a complication but you’ve already arrived back at your home country?), not only is it absolutely ludicrous and dystopian that someone in a country with the ability to have good quality medical care would have to LEAVE to actually get such care, it’s also contributing to one of the biggest problems in medical science today.
Lactophenol cotton blue - Aspergillus versicolor. Don't ask me how I know this, this was speciated well after I took the picture. It is recognizably, however, Aspergillus.
An intranasal combination vaccine induces systemic and mucosal immunity against COVID-19 and influenza - npj Vaccines
Cells and viruses
HEK-293, 293 T, Huh7, MDCK, and VeroE6 cells were all cultured in growth media (Dulbecco’s modified Eagle medium, 10% fetal bovine serum, and antibiotics) and incubated at 37 °C and 5% CO2. SARS-CoV-2 wild-type SH01 strain (GenBank: MT121215), Delta, BA.2, BA.5.1, and BA.5.2 were obtained from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention after isolation from patients in…
Biostimulation of Diesel Polluted Soil using Poultry Droppings
Abstract
Bio stimulation is a form of bioremediation that involves the optimization of soil conditions such as pH, moisture, oxygen etc. to improve pollutant degradation. It embodies the introduction/ addition of nutrients to aid microbial growth. The impact of diesel pollution on the physicochemical properties of soil and the effects of remediation using poultry droppings was investigated. Sample soil, polluted with diesel was simulated in a single bio-treatment unit. Before contamination, the soil sample was characterized after digestion (using 1:1 ratio of 0.25M hydrochloric acid and Nitric acid) to determine the intrinsic properties of the soil. For effective treatment, a 2:1 mixture (w/w) of the polluted soil and the substrate in addition to 25ml of nutrient agar was utilized. The physicochemical properties of soil and rate of pollutant degradation after remediation was monitored for a period of 8 weeks. The initial total heterotrophic bacterial (THB) present in the experimental soil at week 1, was 2.44×105 cfu/g. The total heterotrophic bacterial after bioremediation was 3.74×105 cfu/ g. Also, the total hydrocarbon content (THC) decreased from an initial value of 7.89 mg/kg at week 1 to 2.67mg/kg at week 8. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of poultry droppings as a potent remediation tool for diesel polluted soil.
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hello friends. i do not scream about the fact that i am a biology major often enough. it is the best thing ever. im obsessed with biology. so now you are gonna see art about it.
anyways the other day i was thinkin about bacteriophages being used to fight infections that are resistant to antibiotics (superbugs) and i was like "it is so silly that the immune cells are working WITH viruses for once" and then it came to me
today in insane anti-intellectualism: I just saw a post about how aspiring healthcare practitioners shouldn't take classes in biology and chemistry because those subjects are useless and bad. ????
Evolution of COVID-19 infection in Punjab; trends during five waves of infection in the province of Punjab - BMC Infectious Diseases
The work presented in this manuscript provides trends in infection in the 5th wave, which was predominantly by the Omicron variant. The wave was associated with increased transmission rates. The Ct data indicated that younger individuals, irrespective of gender, had lower Ct values, indicative of higher viral burden which is likely to be associated with severe infections. Additionally, the…
Sometimes I forget how much shit McCoy canonically knows, at least to a degree of competence. Like ok sure he's not an Engineer or a bricklayer but he's damn well more than "a simple, country doctor"; he's got the sciences badge instead of the medical one for a reason