Julian Davies (University of British Columbia) and his team tested the clay as an antibiotic against various bacteria. “It’s been almost all surprises since then,” he says. Solutions of the clay can kill 16 different strains of multidrug-resistant bacteria that commonly infect hospital patients!
If you need a reason to become a dog lover, how about their ability to help protect kids from allergies and obesity?
Microbes can play games with the mind!
Did you know that streptomycetes produce that wonderful earthy forest scent that follows a shower of rain?
Will we replace plastic with fungus-based materials in the future?
Initiated from MIT Media Lab, BioLogic is an attempt of programming the living organisms and inventing responsive and transformable interfaces of the future.
The Agar Art Contest requires contestants to create a picture in a petri dish using microbes as paint. There were 85 entrants this year and the results were pretty amazing. The image above is called ‘Cell to Cell’ and was the people’s choice award with over 3,500 likes in the Facebook album.
Microbes are all around us, on us and within us. Here’s the animation of the built environment microbiome created by the BioBE Center with Cameron Slayden (Cosmocyte) and funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Mikrobi su svemogući, pa mogu biti i ukras na božićnom drvcu. Ako imate 12 sekundi pogledajte video.
Skupina francuskih i švedskih znanstvenika koju su vodili Chantal Abergel i Jean-Michel Claverie, otkrivač dosad najvećih i najkompleksnijih Mimi i Megavirusa, objavila je prošli tjedan u časopisu Science (Philipp et al., 2013, Science 341 (6143): 281-286.) otkriće novog roda Pandoravirus. Kao i prethodno otkriveni virusi orijaške kategorije koji parazitiraju u amebama i ovi imaju vrlo kompleksne genome koji nadilaze po veličini one parazitskih bakterija.
Researchers in China have created a batch of designer viruses by selectively combining genes from the H5N1 bird flu virus with those of the H1N1 swine flu strain. This reassortment process — which can happen naturally in nature — resulted in several hybridized strains that were able spread through the air and infect mammals.
Osnovna svrha projekta je doprinijeti uvođenju, razvoju i održivosti programa društveno korisnog učenja na fakultetima. Više o projektu
Cilj Društva je okupljanje mikrobiologa i stručnjaka srodnih struka s ciljem unapređenja svih grana mikrobiologije.
Date: 22 - 25 September 2025
Venue: Zadar, Croatia
The 7th Central European Symposium on Antimicrobials and Antimicrobial Resistance (CESAR2025) will be held from September 22-25, 2025, at the Hotel Kolovare in Zadar, Croatia. This attractive tourist city, located in the center of the East Adriatic, is surrounded by stunning natural landscapes, making it an ideal venue for this important event.Obavijest o simpoziju “Pokusne životinje u znanstvenim istraživanjima”
Date: 5.-6. veljače 2025.
Venue: Veterinarski fakulet Sveučilišta u Zagreb, Zagreb
12th Trends in Medical Mycology
Date: 19-22 September 2025
Venue: Bilbao, Spain
Ovaj sveučilišni priručnik napisalo je petnaestak autora iz desetak visokoškolskih ustanova iz Zagreba i Rijeke, a sadržaj je podijeljen u petnaest, slikama bogato ilustriranih poglavlja u kojima su opisane i obrađene različite bakteriološke, virološke, mikološke, imunološke i molekularno-biološke metode koje se upotrebljavaju u općoj mikrobiologiji koja se studira na nizu različitih fakulteta i visokih škola.
Radi se o vrhunskoj literaturi za potrebe visokoškolske nastave iz veterinarske imunologije. Knjiga je svojim sadržajem namijenjena prvenstveno studentima, ali i veterinarima u praksi i nastavnicima.
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