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Lives of muskrat lymphocytes
Large lymphocyte from a normal blood film One of my favorite essays by the immunologist-poet, Miroslav Holub, describes the symphony of cellular life enacted after a muskrat drowns in the writer… more →
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Leprosy: The Social Disease
wrote 2 weeks ago: Leprosy is known as the Death before Death; a disease of unparalleled historical stigma and fear tha … more →
Yersinia pestis: The Plague
wrote 1 month ago: When someone mentions the plague, the Black Death often leaps to mind: an infamous, decimating disea … more →
Tetanospasmin and Tetanus: The Second Deadliest Toxin
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wrote 1 month ago: Remember my past post on botulinum toxin, the deadliest substance known to mankind? Well, it’s time … more →
Deinococcus radiodurans: “Conan the Bacterium”
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wrote 1 month ago: If you had to name the most epic, mindboggling bacteria in the world, Deinococcus radiodurans would … more →
From PNNL: "Seeing the Messages Microbes Send"
wrote 2 months ago: Novel chemical imaging instrument shows how bacteria support diverse, nearby colonies March 2013 Sur … more →
Botulinum Neurotoxin: From Weapon to Cosmetic
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wrote 2 months ago: Botulinum neurotoxin is the deadliest substance on Earth; a single gram would kill over a million pe … more →
A Microbe Walked into the Bar…
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wrote 2 months ago: Not all microbes are pathogenic; in fact, pathogens make up a minority of microorganisms. Many simpl … more →
Laveran's eye
wrote 11 months ago: The military hospital of Constantine, Algeria was a fitting place to view what must have seemed the … more →
Does Earth Ice Hold the Key to Alien Life?
wrote 1 year ago: If we can find microbes living between ice crystals on Earth, can we find life on icy Europa too? … more →
Lives of muskrat lymphocytes
wrote 1 year ago: Large lymphocyte from a normal blood film One of my favorite essays by the immunologist-poet, Mirosl … more →
War or Police metaphor in immunology?
wrote 1 year ago: Reblogged from Immune modeling: I am concerned about the use of the police and war metaphor in immun … more →
Which metaphors for immunology?
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wrote 1 year ago: Reblogged from Immune modeling: Many good articles have been published on the use of metaphor in sci … more →
Another parasitology blog
wrote 1 year ago: While on the topic of host-parasite interactions, I recommend looking through an interesting science … more →
Phylogenetic humility
wrote 1 year ago: Just a welcoming sentiment from Robert M. Sapolsky in his collection of science essays, Monkeyluv. S … more →
Why blurry vision helps with big ideas
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wrote 1 year ago: My friend Cin-Ty Lee has always claimed that poor vision has helped make him the exceptional birder … more →
An INL Fact Sheet: "Microbial Metabolic Systems"
wrote 1 year ago: “Description The Microbial Metabolic Systems focus at INL is a systems biology approach to mor … more →
From Berkeley Lab: "Berkeley Lab Researchers Create First of Its Kind Gene Map of Sulfate-reducing Bacterium:"
wrote 1 year ago: Berkeley Lab “Work Holds Implications for Future Bioremediation Efforts Lynn Yarris November 0 … more →
Metaphor of microglia: the maintenance amoeba of the brain's neural network
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wrote 1 year ago: [Here on out, eukaryography will have weekly or so examples and discussions of creative metaphors us … more →
The painted lives of ciliates and schistosomes
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wrote 1 year ago: Art has always been one way to mediate tensions, tensions such as those between the logic-driven min … more →
