Foodborne illnesses affect 600 million people worldwide each year. This Food Safety Education Month, Kanika Khanna discusses the role of natural antimicrobials from plants (essential oils) & bacteria (bacteriocins) in food preservation. asm.social/NZ #FSEM2022

What does #reconciliation look like today? Join us on Sept 29 for our #OrangeShirtDay event to show respect for residential school survivors & their families by listening, learning and sharing in discussions.   Drop-ins welcome: uvic.ca/event/orangesh…

"When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer." 94 years ago Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. He was awarded the #NobelPrize in 1945.

For Night 2 of #31NightsOfHalloween #MicrosCreepy, here is a monster of an amoeba! This cell has 6 nuclei, which happen to look like eyes. LUT: biop-chartreuse by Romain Guiet

BREAKING NEWS: The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”

How chaperone proteins help polypeptides to fold into their 3D shape Polypeptide 🟠 Hsp70 🔵 Hsp40 🟢 GrpE ❤️ #blender #animation #b3d #biochemistry

Carolyn Bertozzi – awarded the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry – has taken click chemistry to a new dimension and started utilising it in living organisms. Her bioorthogonal reactions take place without disrupting the normal chemistry of the cell.

Great to see such influential individuals being acknowledged. Excellent choices. Congrats @CarolynBertozzi

Congrats to my former ⁦Harvard University⁩ bandmate ⁦Carolyn Bertozzi⁩ on her ⁦The Nobel Prize⁩ in chemistry! We won the Ivy League Battle of the Bands in 1986 with our rockin’ group ‘Bored Of Education’, with her on keyboards & me in spandex. news.stanford.edu/2022/10/05/car…

Inspirational 👏👏👏

Impactful words by Carolyn Bertozzi today on how diversity in her trainees enabled creativity, not playing by the rules, and ultimately the work that built the field of bioorthogonal chemistry. Diverse science leads to better science!

Come and join us - we have a PhD Studentship available in our team The ICR to develop novel tools to control and probe the function of our favourite protein, together with AstraZeneca. Applications close on 13 November. icr.ac.uk/studying-and-t…

For night 17 of #31NightsOfHalloween #MicrosCreepy, here is a Naegleria amoeba imaged by scanning electron microscopy. Googly eyes are not a typical phenotype.

Today, we’re introducing a new model that eliminates accept/reject decisions. By publishing every paper with eLife reviews as a Reviewed Preprint, we plan to restore autonomy to authors, ensuring that they will be judged by what, not where, they publish. elifesciences.org/inside-elife/5…

analysis of Black Death victim's DNA showed a strong ERAP2 gene function made you 40% more likely to survive yersinia pestis infection and is now "linked" to auto-immune problems bbc.com/news/health-63…

"Vibrio vulnificus is known as "flesh-eating" because it can develop into necrotising fasciitis, a condition that causes tissue to break down" bbc.com/news/world-us-…

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