From raw honey comes...new antibiotics? Scientists identified previously undescribed bacteria in the sticky goop; under specific culture conditions, the microbes produce antimicrobial molecules with activity against various pathogenic bacteria. mSphere: asm.social/1X0

Advice to young scientists: enjoy the process. Do what it takes to get funding for the things you really care about, and if that isn’t possible then try to get funding for something close, and then do the things you want anyway. open.spotify.com/episode/2rS2Ax…

Happy to share that I am selected among top 30 candidates around the world to attend the International Summer School Workshop on Climate Impact on Zoonotic Illnessses (12th Aug-16th Aug 24) at Rotterdam, Netherlands. I have also been granted a travel award from the organizing co.

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In North Carolina, a patient received a kidney transplant, two units of blood and #Rickettsia parkeri. But where did the pathogen come from? All donors were sero/PCR-negative. One reported frequent tick bites. Possibly an asymptomatic infection? ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

This is one of these rare studies in which former Koch’s postulates are exhaustively tested to ascertain the role of an arthropod in the transmission of a pathogen. I acknowledge it is hard lab work but is the only way to decide “X is the vector of Y” journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…

As an obligate intracellular pathogen, #Rickettsia interacts with cellular functions to survive. These interactions generate unique proteins that can be researched to understand the interactions and also serve as targets for clinical testing. nature.com/articles/s4146…

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🚨PAKISTAN MUST BE THANKFUL TO NEERAJ CHOPRA! 🚨 Arshad Nadeem won Pakistan's the first ever Olympic Gold Medal in any individual competition. This medal belongs to only Arshad Nadeem and whole nation must be thankful to India super-athlete Neeraj Chopra for the achievement.

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When the deputy commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services had a heart attack after eating a cheeseburger it was clear something was wrong, but it took a while to discover it was alpha-gal syndrome. newsleader.com/story/news/202…

At 26, Curie met physicist Pierre Curie, who offered her lab space. She planned to return to Poland and declined his marriage proposal. However, in 1894, the University of Krakow denied her a professorship because she was a woman. Pierre convinced her to pursue a PhD in Paris

In 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, which she shared with Pierre and Becquerel. The committee tried to omit her, but Pierre insisted on her inclusion. Curie was also the first female professor at the Sorbonne after Pierre's tragic

Does Orientia tsutsugamushi also causes alpha gal syndrome in patients?? Would be really interesting to investigate if the disease severity is caused by this symdrome?? I really want to work on an animal model of rickettsial disease........

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journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… Family Amoebophillaceae bacteria are said to be in a "putative" symbiosis with Orientia tsutsugamushi in Leptotrombidium mites. Does the arthropod vector competency for carrying Orientia depends on Amoebophillaceae bacteria????? Curiosity to be answered !

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You probably overlooked or underrated the online literature on ticks and pathogens with near 15,000 papers, fully searchable and downloadable: scienceopen.com/collection/tic… I am the Editor and manually curate the dataset. Just give it a chance ScienceOpen. By the way, it is free.