It is this type of thing that inspires me that a better understanding of microbes in the built environment could be of immense value in many areas: A Trip To The Living City Of The Future | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation. Certainly, we need to do a lot of research into making buildings more …
We’ve posted in the past (here, here, here, and here) about some of the interesting work taking place at the BioBE Center regarding microbial community structure in health-care facilities. Today a paper on this topic came out in the ISME Journal. This paper is certainly worth a read for anyone interested in the microbiology of …
Well, normally I find popular press stories about getting rid of dust and bacteria to be mostly fear mongering. But this article from WebMD (which much of the time I have complaints about) actually seems worth a look: Are Vacuum Cleaners Bad for Your Health?. The article discusses in part new work from Australian researchers on …
Just had a quick glance at this: Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Proceedings of an International Workshop. Hal Levin sent me the link and it certainly seems interesting. I am going to have to peruse it a bit more but it seems of relevance to the microBEnet community so I thought I would post about it. …
When I walk around UC Davis campus or visit areas near hospitals I am always dismayed by the number of people wearing their scrubs when they go out to lunch, seminars, or just walk around. I have always wondered whether those scrubs harbor anything nasty. Well, a new study in the American Journal of Infection Control …
Interesting blog post from the BioBE Center worth checking out regarding Unsavory sources of bacteria in urban air referencing a new paper from Noah Fierer and others. Alas the paper is not OpenAccess and even I can’t get a copy of it right now. But it seems interesting …
The association between moisture/dampness and negative health indicators (e.g. asthma) is quite well documented. This is usually pinned on an unspecified “mold” although in reality the causative agent(s) is unknown. For an excellent and detailed review of this topic see here. A new study came out this week that looked in particular at the …
Have this on my book shelf and was showing it to people today. And low and behold, there it is on Google Books: Bacteria in relation to country life – Google Books. Download the PDF. Learn about microbes in milk products, manure, wells, air, sewage, food, and more. Gotta love Google Books. And microbes.
OK I am going to have to confess something here. Though I am a bit of an obsessed microbiologist who looks for the connection of just about everything to microbiology I never thought about this -what are the potential health effects of microbes in tobacco products? That is the question addresses in a new paper …
A new paper coming out in the journal Fungal Biology is getting a lot of press. The paper is: Dishwashers — A man-made ecological niche accommodating human opportunistic fungal pathogens Normally, I try to avoid writing up blog posts relating to papers that are not at least freely available online so that anyone out there can …