Tag: James Meadow

Long read by Carrie Arnold in Environmental Health Perspectives on the Hospital Microbiome

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There is an article by Carrie Arnold in the new issue of EHP (Environmental Health Perspectives) should be of interest to some people out there: EHP — Rethinking Sterile: The Hospital Microbiome. In the article, Carrie Arnold discusses Jack Gilbert’s hospital microbiome project, hospital acquired infections, DNA based surveys of microbes, and work from the …

When Law follows Science: Supreme Court unanimously confirms recent study of bacteria on cell phones

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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  Well, who would have thought.  Just yesterday a paper came out from the BioBE Center on how the microbes on cell phones reflect the microbiome of the person using the phone (Meadow JF, Altrichter AE, Green JL. (2014) Mobile phones carry the personal microbiome of their owners. PeerJ 2:e447).  In the paper they comment …