by Christoph — When you leave 𝕏 (formerly Twitter), it means that among the "bookmarks" you take with you, you will also come across some that contain images or videos that are mainly nice to look at and even entertaining. Two of these – no, none of the infamous cat pictures – are included today, in 'Lost & Found #4'.
by Elio — Besides enjoying some serviceable crawfish étouffée, I listened to several exciting papers at last June's General Meeting of the ASM in New Orleans. One that stuck in my mind was presented by Prof. Carla Pruzzo, given at a celebratory session in honor of Rita Colwell. A marine microbiologist at the University of Genoa, she and her colleagues have been concerned with no lesser a subject than the effects of climate change...
by Elio — Not long ago, we posted a piece entitled "The Awesomest Thing in Biology" in which we celebrated the mind-boggling complexities of the ocelloid, an organelle that closely resemble the vertebrate eye – in a unicellular protist! It turns out that further surprises come our way...
by Elio — The word planktonic is widely used in microbiology for organisms that are floating in bodies of water. It may be worthwhile to ponder its meaning. According to Wikipedia: plankton consist of any drifting organisms (animals, plants, archaea, or bacteria) that inhabit the pelagic zone...
