“永遠の化学物質”とも呼ばれる有機フッ素化合物「PFAS」   国が新たに公表した調査結果で 各地の水道水から検出されていることがわかってきました   結果をもとに全国の検出状況をマップにまとめました www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/2024…

How fast do #viruses spread in the wild? Simon Dellicour Philippe Lemey's lab &co compare dispersal metrics from #phylogeographic analysis of viral #epidemic genomes with dispersal capacity of diverse viruses, revealing host movement-related discrepancies #PLOSBiology plos.io/3VoeOex

UNESCO will add Japan's traditional knowledge and skills for making sake and other alcoholic drinks to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list. An ANN reporter visited Kitakyushu to partake in the custom of Kaku-uchi (drinking inside a liquor shop).

Poliovirus keeps popping up in European wastewater, perplexing and worrying scientists | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced.

Fantastic review on chronic SARS-CoV-2 infections by virological superstars Richard Neher & Alex Sigal in Nature Microbiology. I’ll do a short overview, outline a couple minor quibbles, & defend the honor of ORF9b w/some stats & 3 striking sequences from the past week. 1/64

Getting started with #MachineLearning? Or are you an expert seeking a practical resource to refine your skills? I’m excited to share my free online e-book: Applied Machine Learning in Python 📘 What you'll find inside: 1. Clear explanations of theory 2. Best practices for

"Blue Carbon is the carbon sequestered by coastal marine ecosystems. Coastal seagrasses and wetlands remove carbon from the atmosphere and help to combat climate change." 🌏 Learn more 👇 via Restore America's Estuaries (RAE) & @EarthCorps

This is a truly wild article. About 5% of cyanobacteria fished from the ocean are connected via nanotubes. These nanotubes are made from lipid membranes. Also, E. coli will sometimes grab onto microbes of *other* species, using these nanotubes, and share nutrients.

This paper has been a long time coming: We looked at the genomes of historical bacterial samples over a century to look for trends of antibiotic resistance genes, finding multiple instances of them in infections before the age of antibiotics...

Sri Lanka, 9th best travel destination in the world! bbc.com/travel/article…

A PNAS paper: “Publish or perish” is supported by evidence. “those whose productivity went down during the postdoc … are significantly more likely to drop out of academia than others.”

This day in history: On February 1, 1953, NHK broadcast Japan's first regular television program. This old footage shows a bus with an ad stating "the age of television is coming" and curious people browsing a display of TV sets.

📌New Publication Our recent study, led by @rohansimkin published in Global Change Biology, highlights the impact of rapid urbanization on the emergence of zoonotic diseases worldwide. The risk is particularly high in the Global South. Full paper: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70…

Environmental DNA Reveals Multitrophic Insight into the Mechanism of Community Stability Changes in Shallow Eutrophic Lakes #eDNA #environmentalDNA pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

🦟 Last front cover of The Lancet perfectly reflectls one the biggest challenges that #VectorControl professionals nowadays have: increasing incidence of #mosquitoes in urban environments 🌆 #Dengue #Aedes #Arboviruses #MosquitoManagement #HealthyCities

① β-Lactamase diversity in Acinetobacter baumannii journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aa… ② β-Lactamase diversity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aa… ＊Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Cesar Arias ASM

#AntimicrobialResistance or AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer respond to antimicrobial medicines such as antibiotics. A leader in the fight against #AMR in the Asia-Pacific region, Japan 🇯🇵 highlights some key lessons from their AMR response in a

New review out in Nature Reviews Microbiology on the complex rltnshp btween metabolism & AMR! A true labor of love from previous postbac Mehrose, grad students Sai Varun Aduru & Zirui Zhao,& collab robert smith (& figures I'll use for many talks in the future!) rdcu.be/eaES2

An oral tablet vaccine for norovirus based on an adenoviral-vectored vaccine that delivers VP1 is safe in older adults and produces a notable antibody response in the mucosa that persists for 210 days, according to results from a phase 1 trial. Learn more in Science Translational Medicine: