by Anne Maczulak | Feb 26, 2018 | Bacteria
How does a bacterial cell make it rain? To affect the weather, bacteria must first get into the clouds. But to get from the earth’s surface, on plants and animals and in soil, they must float upward in air. All bacteria love and need water. Why leave the moist comfort...
by Anne Maczulak | Apr 20, 2017 | Bacteria, News for Germophobes
A Malaria Vaccine The disease malaria is caused by a protozoan parasite with several different life cycle stages that occur inside mosquitoes and inside an infected person. Most parasites with complex life cycles have been difficult to prevent by inventing a vaccine...
by Anne Maczulak | Apr 9, 2017 | Bacteria, News for Germophiles
The atmosphere is an inhospitable place for germs compared with soil and water. Dryness, cool temperatures, and excessive exposure to ultraviolet light are hard on a microbial cell. For decades,microbiologists assumed that the air is the last place a cell wants to...
by Anne Maczulak | May 17, 2012 | Bacteria, News for Germophiles
Microbiologists from the University of Akron and McMaster University ( Canada) have recovered bacteria from the deepest recesses of Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Five hundred strains of bacteria were extracted from rock formations...
by Anne Maczulak | Oct 24, 2011 | Bacteria, News for Germophiles
Microbiofuels on the Way? Hydrogen is one of nature’s simplest molecules. Made of two hydrogen atoms (H2), this gas consists of only two protons and two electrons. Scientists have developed car prototypes that run on H2 rather than gasoline and hope this will offer...
Florence NightingaleIn News for GermophobesTwo hundred years ago a girl was born to the wealthy […]
How Bacterial Cells Affect the WeatherIn BacteriaHow does a bacterial cell make it rain? To affect the […]
Anne’s Arctic Trip Journal – Summer 2017 – Part 1In Arctic JournalThe plane lands above the Arctic Circle in Murmansk. Everyone piles out and onto a shuttle bus. Drive 40 yards. Everyone piles out of the shuttle bus and into Passport Control. The passport officers at a Russian airport are all you imagine. Several minutes of the green-uniformed officer scrutinizing my photo, a little sweat forms on the brow, and then the best sound ever: stamp, stamp, stamp, stamp and stamp. Papers accepted... […]