Talmudic Question #182
Difficult as it may be to predict which agent will cause the next pandemic, which *single* measure would you recommend should be taken now to mitigate its future effects?<
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Talmudic Question #146
The Gram-negative outer membrane lipopolysaccharide (LPS) has three components, Lipid A, the core, and the O‑antigen side-chain. The O‑side chain and parts of the core can be deleted. In contrast, Lipid A appears to be essential. Why do you think that is?
Talmudic Question #97
by Welkin Johnson — What is the minimum set of adaptations that HIV would have to acquire in order to become a successful airborne pathogen like influenza?
Talmudic Question #174
Imagine that the great majority of the microbes on Earth could be cultivated on laboratory media. How do you suggest that, in practice, we handle their humongous number?
Talmudic Question #18
We previously asked: Invertebrates are said to have only innate immunity. Why do you suppose they have not evolved acquired immunity, as vertebrates have done? Let us now turn it around and ask: Why have vertebrates evolved acquired immunity?
Talmudic Question #162
Can you imagine a eukaryotic virus that can infect a bacterium or an archaeon?
Talmudic Question #13
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the root nodules of legumes differentiate into bacteroids, terminal cells incapable of reproduction. The nodules contain a few dormant bacterial cells that can proliferate upon release from the plant...
