It's still so weird to me that this is what a bacteriophage actually looks
Like, tf do you mean it's not just a diagram, and it really looks like this
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Whoooooo wants keychains?
I was originally going to wait until the keychains got here to put them on sale, but I'm getting antsy, so they're on preorder! I estimate I'll receive all of them in a few days and then they'll ship out immediately, if you dare to purchase one. 😈
First up, a bunch of friendly fishy keychains! A coelacanth, a wild type betta, and a furry trout.
Then, some algae! Featuring shapely diatoms and dinoflagellates, as well as some nice green cyanobacteria.
Check them out here! https://garblegoods.bigcartel.com/
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CRISPR was already on thin fucking ice as a serious name for a biotech technique and now they made up CRISPY-BRED are you joking
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Did you know that 4000 metres bellow the ocean there are chemosynthetic bacteria that are specifically evolved to digest the wood of trees that have grown on land?
The wood on the sea floor can come from trees that fall into lakes and end up in the ocean, or wooden ships that have sunken. (Called 'Wood-falls')
The reason why deep marine organisms are able to digest wood despite never seeing the light of day, let alone a plant - since plants are unable to grow in the deep ocean because of a lack of sunlight - is because the ocean is so isolated and scarce of food that when a new food source is suddenly available, organisms rapidly evolve to be able to eat it.
This is called 'Adaptive Radiation', and can also occur on isolated islands.
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"Microbial Rainbow" (detail), Tal Danino, 2018
source
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can any mycologists help explain what's going on in this soy sauce bottle? i've done some lab work with fungi but i've never seen a mould tree before.
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Sprinkle Amoeba. Hehehehe ✨🦠
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leaving a three hour lab be like:
what time is it? why is it dark outside? where did the sun go?
I'm starving.
I'm never doing that again (literally has the same lab scheduled the following week).
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