#microflora

[chemlock]

Algae and Forensics

If you watch a lot of crime shows, you may have seen algae being used to help solve a crime. In Dexter, the algae on the victims was used to determine the port they came from, which led them to Dexter. Or Hannibal, where the algae led the FBI to Miriam Lass. A lot of crime shows play forensics up, but algae actually can be an important tool for helping solve a crime.

The presence of algae, or lack thereof, can tell us several things. Is there algae present in the closed organs of the decedent? If so, that tells you they were drowned or whether or not they were taken to a second location. What kind of algae? This can help us determine fairly accurately where the victim was drowned. This doesn't include bathwater or water with too few diatoms, such as ice water.

But how? Let's look into that.

First off, I will be using the term "Diatoms." If you are unaware, diatoms are a type of photosynthesising algae, so I will be using the terms interchangeably.

There are over 15,000 species of algae living in brackish, fresh water, and sea water. Ponds, lakes, rivers, oceans, and coastal areas all have different diatom communities, and using that we can identify where the victim might have been killed.

When you drown, liquid is aspirated into the lungs and enters the bloodstream through alveoli. This lets particles such as sediments, microorganisms, or pollen to be carried to organs and deposited in capillaries. This means that diatoms can be found in the organs of a drown victim.

So, if diatoms are found in distant organs or closed systems and are of a great abundance, the cause of death is most likely due to ante-mortem drowning. This lets us know that the victim was drowned and was not just dumped posthumously.

Thanks to diatoms acid resistant sillica shell, they can easily be separated from tissue using acid-digestive extractions, and they are detectable in burned or putrified corpses. This means that drowning as a cause of death could be determined in a burnt victim that was taken to a second location.

Algae is also being researched for its use as a time of death indicator. A study was conducted by forensic scientists, who found the diversity of algae on piglet bodies in water tended to decrease over time with a peak in diatoms recorded after 1-8 days of decomposition. This kind of work remains largely experimental, but it has the potential to be used for establishing a timeline since death (or submersion) in water.

Algae can be useful for linking criminals to their crime scenes, as diatoms can transfer onto clothing or footwear. Comparing microflora with the diatoms found could also give you a general area or type of water they were drowned in, as a swamp would have different algae than say, the ocean.

This evidence isn't damning in and of itself, but all evidence at a crime scene is valuable for solving the crime, and as such, algae can be an important part of forensics.

Thanks for reading! Have a good day and a cup of tea :)

#forensics #dexter #sherlock #forensic science #mortuary science #algae #my favorite thing in the whole world is the intersection of forensics and marine biology #marine biology #biology #marine flora #✨️science✨️ #djxbbdshhshsn #im tired as fuck #not that anyone asked #:> #criminologist #criminology #crime #crime solving #with ✨️forensics ✨️ #woo #sherlockian #deduction #science of deduction #deductionist #deductive reasoning #marine biologist #marine life #microflora

[crudlynaturephotos]

#elderflower #elder tree #sambucus #flowering trees #microflora #uppsala #sweden

[whats-in-a-sentence]

It's also been suggested that glyphosate can lead to more plant disease, because its use 'reduces the overall growth and vigor of the plants, modifying soil microflora that affects the availability of nutrients required for disease resistance'.

"Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy" - Matthew Evans

#book quotes #soil #matthew evans #nonfiction #glyphosate #roundup #herbicides #plant disease #plants #disease #vigor #soil biota #microflora #nutrition #nutrients #nutrient absorption

[oaresearchpaper]

Ablo is wet bread, slightly salty and sweet, steamed and sold in the form of pellets. The objective of the study was to assess the microbiological quality of millet-based Ablo and sorghum-based Ablo. The methodology adopted was to perform production tests followed by analyses in the laboratory. The results showed that the lactic acid bacteria, yeasts and moulds were the dominant micro flora of the millet- based Ablo and sorghum-based Ablo. Furthermore, analysis showed that the millet-based Ablo and the sorghum-based Ablo doesn’t contain either total coli forms, coli forms thermo tolerant or consequently Escherichia coli.

#Ablo #Microflora #Millet #Sorghum #Benin

[itlearns]

Remember to drink enough water and eat healthy for you are a substrate for many thousands living organisms. Make sure your are nutritious and hydrated.

#mycelium will be pleased #self care #health #remember to drink water #substrate temperature is also important #nature #biology #microflora #your body is not a temple but a Petri dish

[captain-kiendinh]

LIFE SPACE WOMEN'S MICROFLORA PROBIOTIC - MEN VI SINH RẤT TỐT CHO PHỤ NỮ

Life Space Women’s Microflora Probiotic cung cấp đến 6,3 tỷ đơn vị lợi khuẩn sống từ 6 chủng khác nhau, đem lại công dụng hỗ trợ phục hồi hệ vi sinh âm đạo khỏe mạnh. Sản phẩm có lợi thế với kết cấu dạng viên dễ uống, dễ bảo quản, không cần làm lạnh như chế phẩm dạng nước thông thường.

Trong nhiều năm qua, sản phẩm đã được đông đảo phụ nữ Úc tin chọn và hiện nay khách hàng Việt cũng có thể dễ dàng mua được tại hệ thống Nhà thuốc uy tín Vivita.

Nguồn: https://vivita.vn/life-space-womens-microflora-probiotic

#vivita #probiotics #microflora

[newsmedianest]

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#newsmedianest #biocomplete #shopee #sale #dzri #drzensph #vitamin #flora #supplements #health #microflora #probiotics #foodsupplements #wellness

[perpetual-enjine]

More in deranged MHA headcanons:

You know how me expose food to high temp to kill the microorganisms that cause diseases.

Endeavor has a high body temp

Endeavor can’t get sick

Which means

Endeavor can’t get an std

Which means

If there’s no possibiity of or concern over pregnancy

YOU DON’T NEED TO USE A CONDOM WITH ENDEAVOR

You’re welcome;)

#but also like how is his microflora doing and does he have an immune system #i have no degree in biology proceed at your own risk #deranged mha headcanons #enji todoroki #endeavor #mha #bnha #endeavor mha

[nerdworld01]

When a werewolf transforms does their gut microbiome transform as well? Or are there just a bunch of bacteria that have suddenly been transferred from a human body to a wolf body

#do the bacteria become werewolves too #how deep does werewolfism go #and is human microflora bad for wolves

[newtness532]

a new braincell dies every time i have to change "μικροχλωριδα" to "μικροβιωμα"

#if the origina text says microbiota/microbiome why do you have to translate it to microflora? #its like google translate wants me to fail the presentation #(microflora is a big no-no word in this class bc its not accurate (we do not have flora in our intestine)) #jo says stuff #university update

[crudlynaturephotos]

#spring starflower #springstar #ipheion uniflorum #wildflowers #microflora #san diego

[madqueenalanna]

the real fucking 9/11 was whatever yesterday did to my entire gi tract. i vomited so many times yesterday that i scalded my esophagus and brought up like 4 tablespoons of blood. today i'm shitting bile

#Personal #This is quite TMI I understand. I feel like I'm dying #My gut microflora are in shambles rn

[captain-nicnac]

*drinks milk* why is my tummy mad at me 😞

#my microflora are insufficient for the task :( #best thing about cutting down on dairy was less tummy aches #worst thing is that when i do the tummy aches are worse

[prokopetz]

My city is running a trial of a new residential garden waste pickup service, and to that end, they've issued everybody these big green wheeled bins with tight-fitting lids. Having nothing better to do with it, I've been using it for the windfallen fruit from my apple trees.

Just today, I went to add some dead branch trimmings to its contents, and when I opened the lid, I was immediately struck blind by a visibly roiling cloud of alcohol vapour that belched forth from the bin.

From this I have learned two things:

My trees have the correct microflora (microfauna?) for natural cider production; and

This is probably why the wasps that hang around said trees in the fall are always so fucked up.

#life #food mention #alcohol mention #insects mention #swearing

[piosplayhouse]

when the biology assumes that the person would give birth via the asshole it breaks immersion for me and i stop reading simply because it makes NO sense for a species to give birth via a method that would expose their newborns to the germs in the asshole? (via the mpreg poll)

Um. I'm really really sorry to have to break this to you but there's actually a very heated and still ongoing scientific debate over whether or not children born via c-section have a higher risk of childhood immune-related disease due to lack of exposure to birth canal/adjacent fecal matter germ not populating their gut microflora

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4464665/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5050524/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091674908009408

#IM SORRY I JUST KNOW THIS #im sorry today is a horrific facts day i just had to share #and im sorry if you didnt want this shared but i assume you did because you said youd be excited to see the results? #but if not just lmk ill delete #unsanitary #tw unsanitary

[gallusrostromegalus]

AEIWAM: Why DOES the God Machine decay, anyways? It's operating outside of time and space. For that matter, I have Other questions about it. Why does it generate existence in the first place? Does it change its composition over time? Does it communicate with others like it? Did someone make it?

Strictly speaking, there is no reason for life to exist, here or in the fic. This is all just a very fun accident. Life exists in the 4 dimensions we're familiar with not because there is a reason FOR life to exist, but because there is no particular reason for life to NOT exist. I think it's the same in twelve or two hundred forty-seven dimensions. There's no reason for life to NOT exist outside of our understanding of time and space, so there's not particular reason to think it does not exist.

So the life machine exists, not because it was made, but because there is no reason it should not exist.

One thing that does seem to be true across different dimensions (and by "dimensions" I mean "measurable spectrums in which reality can exist", not "Alternate universes") is that death, or at least, entropy *does* exist. The universe we live in will eventually experience heat death. Time unravels under specific conditions and indications are that those conditions will eventually become dominant. All things, even the laws of physics, eventually die.

So the Life Machine dies, because for some reason, all things do.

...But also Things are born for no particular reason.

The big bang happened for no particular reason other than nothing was stopping it (kind of literally). Some people think that the universe will not experience heat death at all, but a dimensional collapse that crushes it all back together, before it explodes again, like a cosmic inhale and exhale.

Perhaps the Life Machine is not dying at all, so much as this version of it is reaching the next phase of it's life cycle, and it departs it's mortal coil not for oblivion but it turns to goop to reform into a body measured in entirely different dimensions.

Which is a bit of an upheaval for its microflora.

The Life Machine generates life in the same way you and I 'generate' the conditions of our intestines that support bacteria. If you ask most people, they do not think their primary purpose in life is to play host to billions of microorganisms, but that is very much something we do, and depend on.

Likewise, the Life Machine is misnamed, because it's got purpose beyond human understanding, like how humans have purpose beyond the understanding of eyelash mites. It's doing it's own thing, we just live here. but if all our microflora and fauna were to leave, it'd be a major problem for us, and if all life were to stop, it'd be a problem for the Life Machine.

In the Tarot, "Death" symbolizes change, and the Life Machine is Dying in the sense that it's definitely changing. Whether that change is the change from caterpillar to butterfly or from whale to whalefall is beyond the comprehension of Mortals, or even things like The Soul King.

Soul King's job is to keep the souls alive through this, and they achieve this by exploiting the fact that this change is also when the Life Machine reproduces. Regardless if the current Life Machine becomes a butterfly or a corpse, it's offspring will have suitable conditions for life to continue. Maybe this is a gift form parent to child- the life machine passes her internal flora to her offspring like a mother transfers her own colonies and antibodies to her child via colostrum. Maybe the Life Machine isn't thinking of it's offspring at all and this is all just the machinations of the parasites to propagate themselves into a new host for the sake of future generations.

Either way, neither action is planned or designed, but are still acts of love from a parent to child. Woman and Nematode alike loves her daughter.

TL;DR: As Above, So below, in the gooeiest and most incomprehensible but deeply loving way possible.

#AEIWAM #an elephant is warm and mushy #bleach fanfic #philosophy #yes this is a fanfic but I can put my headcanons about the nature of god in here as well #and my theory is that God is like most science: intensely complicated and more than a little gross #but also deeply joyful and the more you know the more you love