What happens when people learn that humans are not standalone organisms, but walking ecosystems?
Our new paper explored whether learning about the #holobiont concept – humans are symbiotic assemblages of a host & trillions of microbes – influences nature connectedness.
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What if future antibiotics come from microbes living on social wasps? 🐝
In this #FEMSmicroBlog, Manasa Narayan walks us through how insect-associated Actinobacteria are emerging as promising sources of antimicrobial compounds:
"The size of the Ebola outbreak in its initial days is worrying researchers. The next few weeks will determine how large it grows, they say."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Jake Robinson
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Great piece and cover @science.org about how our field is uncovering the evolutionary and mechanistic connections between bacterial and eukaryotic immunity !
www.science.org/content/article/ancient-wars-between-microbes-gave-us-key-immune-defenses
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When you see the story
about how the world
now has its first trillionaire,
and when you see the story
about how laboratories
in Congo have run out
of supplies to test for Ebola,
it is important to understand
that in many ways
these are the same story.
Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister.
Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.
