Tag: bacteria
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From the stars inside bacteria... (literally)
Ancient bacteria may have chewed up the radioactive remains of a star that exploded more than 2 million years ago. [1] Iron-y is a fundamental part of the Cosmos. From being a powerful star, into the "guts" of the lowest living organism... Is there a more powerful way to illustrate the poetry of this world?…
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Cancer, germs, scientific prejudice...
Many times a man has an idea. An idea so odd that other people think he is insane. And it is only after many years that this man is vindicated.The case of cancer is one of those cases. Pathologist and bacteriologist Royal Rife had been saying more than 50 years ago that cancer is caused…
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Vostok, bacteria and personal agendas in Science: A sad tale...
A Russian scientist over the weekend dismissed the claims of his colleagues that water pulled from a lake buried for millions of years beneath Antarctica contained a strange new form of microbial life. But on Monday, those colleagues insisted that the bacterium they have discovered doesn't fall into any known categories. The tiny creature in…
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Bacteria, new opinions, old "wrong" opinions...
Levi Strauss said that people have a tendency to believe that newer thoughts are always better and more correct than older ones. And this is totally but totally wrong. In the old days we thought that species were constant and unchangeable. Now we (think we) "know" they are not. Take for example bacteria or viruses,…
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Bacteria, Alchemy, humans...
Infectious bacteria have for the first time been caught performing "biological alchemy" to transform parts of a host body into those more suited to their purposes, by a team in Edinburgh. The study, in the journal Cell, showed leprosy-causing bacteria turning nerves into stem cells and muscle. [1] Change is part of the world. And those…
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