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Mashup Score: 3Microbial drought resistance may destabilize soil carbon - 1 year(s) ago
Around the world, climate change is impacting all forms of life, including microbiomes (see Glossary). As the engines of Earth’s biogeochemical cycles [1], microbiomes can alter global carbon and nutrient cycling as the environment changes. Given that soils hold nearly 2000 Pg carbon [2], the climate responses of soil microbiomes could impact global carbon balance and future levels of greenhouse…
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Mashup Score: 2Microbial drought resistance may destabilize soil carbon - 1 year(s) ago
Around the world, climate change is impacting all forms of life, including microbiomes (see Glossary). As the engines of Earth’s biogeochemical cycles [1], microbiomes can alter global carbon and nutrient cycling as the environment changes. Given that soils hold nearly 2000 Pg carbon [2], the climate responses of soil microbiomes could impact global carbon balance and future levels of greenhouse…
Source: Trends in MicrobiologyCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Microbial ecologist @StevenDAllison warns that soil health and future greenhouse gas levels could be impacted if soil microbes adapt to drought faster than plants do. Read more in @TrendsMicrobiol here: https://t.co/pf4PfoWDe9 https://t.co/nyL9eAlBe9
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Mashup Score: 1Interplay between endogenous and exogenous human retroviruses - 1 year(s) ago
Retroviruses are a major group of animal RNA viruses that have the ability and the necessity to reverse-transcribe their RNA genome to DNA, which is subsequently integrated into the host cell nuclear genetic material (provirus) and serves as the template for viral mRNA and protein synthesis. Retroviruses were first discovered as tumor-causing viruses over a century ago [1]. However, the…
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❔ Did you know that ~8% of the human genome is occupied by ancient retroviral DNA? 🧬 Drs. Gkikas Magiorkinis (@magiorkinis) and Eleni Kyriakou of @uoaofficial explore the interactions between exogenous and endogenous #retroviruses, and much more. ➡️ https://t.co/sR3w3P83zW https://t.co/4agTQTcRxv
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The coast is the area where the land meets the ocean. There are approximately 620 000 km of coastline on Earth [1]. Crucially, coastal ecosystems have a high capacity for carbon sequestration. Although they occupy only 0.07–0.22% of the Earth’s surface, coastal ecosystems act as important ‘blue carbon’ reservoirs, and contribute 10% of the global carbon storage annually, that is, 80–220 gigatons…
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"Non-negligible roles of archaea in coastalcarbon biogeochemical cycling" #ShenzenUniversity Meng Li Read more in @TrendsMicrobiol: https://t.co/QhqBf033vg
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The coast is the area where the land meets the ocean. There are approximately 620 000 km of coastline on Earth [1]. Crucially, coastal ecosystems have a high capacity for carbon sequestration. Although they occupy only 0.07–0.22% of the Earth’s surface, coastal ecosystems act as important ‘blue carbon’ reservoirs, and contribute 10% of the global carbon storage annually, that is, 80–220 gigatons…
Source: Trends in MicrobiologyCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
"Non-negligible roles of archaea in coastalcarbon biogeochemical cycling" #ShenzenUniversity Meng Li Read more in @TrendsMicrobiol: https://t.co/QhqBf033vg
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Mashup Score: 8Microbial metabolites: the next frontier in human milk - 2 year(s) ago
Microbial metabolites mediate the impact of the microbiome on host physiology. Here, we highlight metabolites of interest for early-life programming and synthesise early evidence that maternally derived microbial metabolites are transmitted to the infant via human milk. We advocate for the use of targeted and untargeted metabolomics to compliment current milk microbiome work.
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RT @UCCpsychiatry: Microbial metabolites: the next frontier in human milk https://t.co/qUwHz0QuKv
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Mashup Score: 6Bacterial Coinfections in Coronavirus Disease 2019 - 2 year(s) ago
Bacterial coinfections increase the severity of respiratory viral infections and were frequent causes of mortality in influenza pandemics but have not been well characterized in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The aim of this review was to identify the frequency and microbial etiologies of bacterial coinfections that are present upon admission to the hospital and that occur…
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Bacterial Coinfections in Coronavirus Disease 2019 @TrendsMicrobiol #TrendsPandemicVSI @MSatlin, @WCMCPathology @WeillCornell https://t.co/9g9IFYPKhx
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Even in nonpandemic times, respiratory viruses account for a vast global burden of disease. They remain a major cause of illness and death and they pose a perpetual threat of breaking out into epidemics and pandemics. Many of these respiratory viruses infect repeatedly and appear to induce only narrow transient immunity, but the situation varies from one virus to another. In the absence of…
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Durability of Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 and Other Respiratory Viruses @TrendsMicrobiol #TrendsPandemicVSI @DrMattSiggins, @InThwaiteImmune, @p_openshaw https://t.co/iE81XdH3mp
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Mashup Score: 0Broadening Participation in Scientific Conferences during the Era of Social Distancing - 2 year(s) ago
Virtual conferences can offer significant benefits but require considerable planning and creativity to be successful. Here we describe the successes and failures of a hybrid in-person/virtual conference model. The COVID-19 epidemic presents the scientific community with an opportunity to pioneer novel models that effectively engage virtual participants to advance conference goals.
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Broadening participation in scientific conferences during the era of social distancing #TrendsVoices @TrendsMicrobiol https://t.co/xx0f1c8PIe https://t.co/ikfqeks1eC
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For some microorganisms, virulence may be an inadvertent consequence of mutation and selection in the parasite population, occurring within a host during the course of an infection. This type of virulence is short-sighted, in that it engenders no advantage to the pathogen beyond the afflicted host. Bacterial meningitis, poliomyelitis and AIDS are three candidates for this model of the evolution…
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Bruce Levin and Jim Bull wrote a very important paper about virulence evolution back in '94. To paraphrase and generalize, virulence is often not so much a matter of evolutionary fine-tuning as a matter of "shit happens." https://t.co/N4rv2CvTQV (paywall) https://t.co/ETDpWuO3da
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Increased droughts are disrupting carbon-capturing soil microbes, concerning ecologists. @StevenDAllison @UCIrvine Read more in @TrendsMicrobiol: https://t.co/pf4PfoWDe9 https://t.co/SrfwtrNffn