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Sounds very promising!
But, injecting bacteria and inhaling them are two totally different things. I am sure the injected dose is logs higher than what would be inhaled, especially after a 5 minute walk.
Also, the mice should generate a strong immune response to injected bacteria. What effect does that have, I wonder? Probably a big one.
Wow- first mouthwash and now baby wipes. Canada's been having a tough time lately.
Those are two things that you wouldn't expect to need to test for microbial contamination.
California could be the Cyanobacteria Synechococcus CC9311 , found in the coastal waters of the Pacific:
Surf’s Up—And One Coastal Microbe Has Adapted
http://bit.ly/9zUPXW
Pseudomonas can live in pretty much anything, It's a little disconcerting that the manufacturer made contaminated mouthwash for three years before it was discovered.
Enjoyable podcast. I met one of the postdocs who worked on the sushi project at the Gordon Research Conference last summer. It is a really interesting body of work!
Really interesting article, because it is very difficult to isolate DNA from microbes in clay soils. Maybe it's because some of them are dead. Probably not the spore-formers though.
I wonder if this type of report is worded appropriately for the public. They already see scientists as "playing god". Creating three "terrifyingly virulent and powerful new strains" of flu will be difficult to communicate without causing alarm. It would be nice to see a sentence or two on how they were immediately destroyed or maybe how they were mutated so they cannot replicate. You get my meaning.
In light of how scientific information on vaccines and autism has been mishandled with the public, I hope we are learning to be sensitive to how information is presented to non-scientists.
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