Do Mine Ears Deceive Me?
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, JUNE 2015Most of us have always felt that we tell the truthor at least decide when to or not. Linguists,…
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GEOFFREY MANLEYAlthough his first love in science was animal research, retired zoology professor and hearing researcherGeoffrey Ma…
Microorganisms Make a House a Home?
The largest survey of the microorganisms living in houses to date shows that small samples of household dust can carry a lot of in…
Subway Microbiome Study Revised
In the wake of media reports suggesting the New York City subways are littered with anthrax and the bacteria that cause bubonic pl…
Bacteria to Blame?
Gut bacteria may provide the trigger for autoimmune uveitis, a destructive inflammation of the eye, researchers at the US National…
Traditional Medicine for Leishmaniasis
he roots of the plantPentalinon andrieuxiihave been used by Mayans for years to treat infections from the parasiteLeishmania,and r…
Skin Microbes Help Clear Infection
To understand whether thehuman skin microbiomecan affect the ability of a bacterial pathogen to cause an infection, researchers ha…
Local Microbes Give Wine Character
The distinct regional conditions, or terroir, in which grapes are grown are thought to shape a wines character. But strict scienti…
Mislabeled Genomes to be Fixed
The Scientisthas written plenty aboutcontamination, and in no small way aboutmislabeled genomesin databases. At an American Societ…
Lost Colonies
TAMING THE BEAST: Colored scanning electron micrograph of a segmented filamentous bacterium (SFB, orange) reaching up from a bed o…
