Much like the Horta, in “Devil in the Dark”, Star Trek, TOS, this microbe creates lovely crystalline droplets, rather like an Angel’s breath, leaving a silver sheen on cave walls as it carves new ones.
Drinking Water Disaster – What the Hurricanes Wrought
“Water Filters for Puerto Rico” hopes to deliver as many Wave To Water filters to the island as possible. The filters are lightweight and can be easily transported. A single $50 filter can provide clean drinking water for up to 100 people.
Dolphin Rider – Celebrating all Girls who become scientists
V. harveyi is bioluminescent and creates a “glow in the dark” effect in the sea creatures it inhabits. But unlike its close cousin, V. harveyi is not in kindly symbiosis with sea creatures it invades.
The Genetically Engineered Microbe that Eats TCP
A microbe that already has some genes for degrading the next product after 1,2,3 TCP degradation, was subjected to mutation, artificially, and by using common microbe whispering tricks for enrichment and screening, a microbe was found with the enzyme that could do what we want it to do, chow down on 1,2,3 TCP.
Selkie Soul Mate
This is a story about how animal guides act through their real-world counterparts. Some might feel that wild animals pose a danger to you or children. For an example of such attitudes, here’s an article about a young girl who was pulled off a dock, by a sea lion. The reporter cautions against most peoples’ cavalier attitude towards wild animals. And quite dishonorably, he is very dismissive of his “hippie Mother” who believes in the power of animal communion.
Microbe Animal Guides and Meditation in a Water Drop
Imagine you are being lifted gently into a gargantuan lake, filled with fresh water.
You sink into the water, and you and the membrane around you shrink to the size of a microbial cell, which is 1-2 microns in size, tinier than a dust mote, tinier than a blood cell. Now the membrane becomes your gatekeeper, permeable to the nutrients you need to take in or the oxygen you have to use for your metabolism.
Earth Mama Microbe – Streptomyces Coelicolor – Happy Earth Day!
If I were Queen of the World, I’d wave my scepter and declare the all waste and toxins that pollute our earth to disappear!
11. Miracle Microbe – Serratia marcesans
Because S. marcesans is commonly found growing on bread and communion wafers stored in moist places, microbiologists have speculated that this might be the basis for the miracle believed by Catholics, that of transubstantiation.
11. A Microbe from Trappist-1? Deinoccocus Radiodurans
In spite of its popular title, “Conan the Bacterium,” D. radiodurans may be more comparable to an indestructible superhero from DC Comics legends than any mere warrior human.
2. Thioautotroph Bacteria
Pre-endosymbiont – “I have to work so hard to scrape together a few HS-, O2 and CO2 molecules just to eek out a living in this undersea vent neighborhood!”
Pre-tube worm host – “ Why don’t you take a load off in my tube chamber? I could use a few extra ergs of ATP from you.”
And the ultimate codependent relationship was born!