new research suggests it’s the animals, and the drugs we feed them
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Gene data show China bird flu mutated 'under the radar' | Fox News - 0 views
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This is so scary. It is only a matter of time before bird flu is able to spread to humans....
A framework for human microbiome research : Nature : Nature Publishing Group - 0 views
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A variety of microbial communities and their genes (the microbiome) exist throughout the human body, with fundamental roles in human health and disease. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Human Microbiome Project Consortium has established a population-scale framework to develop metagenomic protocols, resulting in a broad range of quality-controlled resources and data including standardized methods for creating, processing and interpreting distinct types of high-throughput metagenomic data available to the scientific community. An ambitious article found in another article I enjoyed reading. Was incredibly interested to find out that the vaginal microbiota of pregnant women was significantly different from non-pregnant and to find that these microbiota are preparing the soon to be born baby with it's own microbiota!! (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/science/studies-of-human-microbiome-yield-new-insights.html?ref=microbiology)
The Black Sea is a goldmine of ancient genetic data - 0 views
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The Black Sea is a hotspot for past plankton life.
How Pigs on Antibiotics Are Making Superbugs Stronger | Popular Science - 0 views
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MRSA started out as a drug-defeatable bug and then transferred into the pig population, where it developed resistance to two common forms of antibiotics
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“[It’s] like watching the birth of a superbug,”
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MSRA could be defeated when first discovered. However, it was transferred to the pig population and went crazy after that. Humans over immunize animals and make super-bugs from inappropriate and overuse of antibiotics. New tests are being done with bacteria being injected into other hosts - which then can be used to kill MRSA. This method could find new and natural antibiotics that could fight various forms of drug-resistant superbugs!
Impact of rotavirus vaccination on hospital-acqui... [Pediatrics. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI - 0 views
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Data shows that after the implementation of routine rotavirus vaccination for infants in the United States, rotavirus cases declined substantially in the 2007-2008 season. Supplemental information for Rotavirus presentation.
Effectiveness of rotavirus vaccination against childhood... [BMJ. 2010] - PubMed - NCBI - 0 views
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Data proved that a rotavirus vaccine was effective in young children in families with a middle/low income setting in El Salvador. Supplementary paper for Rotavirus presentation.
New device can extract human DNA with full genetic data in minutes - 0 views
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The device will give hospitals and research labs a much easier way to separate DNA from human fluid samples, which will help with genome sequencing, disease diagnosis and forensic investigations.
Genes show one big European family - 0 views
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to a new study of the DNA of people from across the continent.
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This was predicted in theory over a decade ago, and we now have concrete evidence from DNA data,
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But even a pair of individuals who live as far apart as the United Kingdom and Turkey -- a distance of some 2,000 miles -- likely are related to all of one another's ancestors from a thousand years ago.
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kind of creepy to think about....
Resistance to the Antibiotic of Last Resort Is Silently Spreading - The Atlantic - 0 views
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farmers started using it by the tons in animals, where low doses of antibiotics can promote growth.
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November 18, 2015, scientists published a report in the British medical journal The Lancet: A single, easily spreadable gene makes the bacteria that carry it resistant to colistin, our antibiotic of last resort.
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Chinese scientists had found this gene, called mcr-1, in pig farms and on meat in supermarkets.
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CDC Threat Report: 'We Will Soon Be in a Post-Antibiotic Era' - Wired Science - 0 views
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And it calls for action in four areas: gathering better data; preventing infections, through vaccination, better protective behavior in hospitals, and better food handling; improving the way in which antibiotics are used, by not using them inappropriately in health care or agriculture; and developing not just new categories of antibiotics but better diagnostic tests so that resistant organisms can be identified and dealt with sooner, before they spread.
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“My biggest frustration is the pace of change,” he told me. “Hospitals are making progress, but it’s single digits in terms of the number of hospitals that are being very proactive.
You're Probably Not Mostly Microbes - The Atlantic - 0 views
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As Carl Zimmer notes, “The very fact that scientists are still so unsure of how many cells and bacteria are in each of us is pretty remarkable.”
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90 percent of human cells are red blood cells, which don't contain DNA and aren’t capable of dividing. They’re rather poor excuses for cells—remove them from the equation and the 10:1 ratio reinstates itself.
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And it’s probably wrong.
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