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Cribraria cancellata by Sarah Lloyd
orange slime mold plasmodium by Jerry Yap, Malaysia
A tardigrade.-
Microbelr
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(via Agar Art β A Cultural Triumph: See A Microbiology Masterpiece In A Petri Dish : NPR)
yep, itβs cultured & arranged bacteria!
βBats have attracted great attention as a likely reservoir of the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic,β says Professor Wang Lin-Fa of the Duke-NUS Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Programme and senior author of the study in the journal Cell. βBut this unique ability to host yet survive viral infections could also have a very positive impact on human health if we can understand and exploit how they achieve this.β
The research is focused on multi-protein complexes called inflammasomes that are responsible for the overactive inflammation that causes serious symptoms in many diseases. Inflammasomes are also implicated in functional decline in aging.
The researchers discovered that a bat protein called ASC2 has a powerful ability to inhibit inflammasomes, thereby limiting inflammation.
βThis suggests that the high-level activity of ASC2 is a key mechanism by which bats keep inflammation under control, with implications for their long lifespan and unique status as a reservoir for viruses,β explains Matae Ahn, first author and co-corresponding author of the study and an adjunct research fellow with the EID Programme and the SingHealth Duke-NUS Medicine Academic Clinical Programme.
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Leafy Sea Dragon (Phycodurus Eques)
a super macro
Mycena mushrooms in the moss
Filoboletus manipularis is found in south-east Asia, Australia and other parts of the world. No one would guess that these seemingly ordinary mushrooms glow at night like magical toadstools in a fairy wonderland.
Photographer Callie Chee
Microglossum viride
Common puffball / Flaschen-Staubling fungi Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Punctelia reddenda
This gorgeous foliose lichen grows in rosettes up to 6 cm in diameter. The upper surface is gray-green to yellow-green with white, punctiform (point or dot like) pseudocyphella which turn into soralia which produce granular or nodular soredia. The lower surface is black toward the center and lightens to brown near the rounded margins of the overlapping lobes. P. reddenda grows on mossy tree trunks and rock in Africa, Macaronesia, North and South America, and Europe.
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Abortiporus biennis, 2019-08-26
FUNGI: THE ROTTEN WORLD AROUND US [1983]
i didnβt notice while i was taking this photo of some Cortinarius sp. mushrooms, but creeping up their stipes is some plasmodial slime mold !! i wish i had realised and gotten a better shot of it
Stemonitis sp.
photo source-The MacroClub Project (Myxomycetes)
Slime Mold
Comatricha nigra
by andysandsphotography
Me: here's a fun bacteria fact!
My mom: wow! Horrifying! Please never tell me anything like that ever again!
Using the heart as an investigational model, scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have designed an autoencoder-based machine-learning pipeline that can effectively predict a patientβs heart condition based on image data from ECGs and MRIs. The approach could also be used to detect markers related to cardiovascular diseases.
Nearly all areas of medical science have utilized artificial intelligence (AI) over the years. It has been effectively diagnosing diseases and predicting their transmission and prognosis. AI has been used to design therapeutic approaches effectively and has been helpful in the field of drug design. The use of AI in studying cardiovascular diseases has come a long way, especially machine learning-based systems. AI-based algorithms can be trained to predict cardiovascular disease outcomes using available diagnostic imaging technology.
Currently, the field of cardiology uses a variety of imaging technologies, such as ultrasound imaging, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), etc. The Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a widely used test to monitor the heartβs rhythm. These technologies generate a lot of data that can be utilized to analyze the condition of a personβs heart. The availability of several diagnostic modalities has raised the need for standardized tools for analyzing imaging data effectively. A multi-modal framework built on machine learning techniques has been suggested by researchers from The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The proposed system can help doctors to understand the cardiovascular state of a person using data from MRIs and ECGs. In practice, clinicians can use data generated from the machine learning program to diagnose a patient appropriately.
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Iβve done it! Iβve designed such an incredibly cursed molecule that MolView doesnβt even assign it a systematic IUPAC name. Behold:
The image doesnβt even show up right in the post editor lol. This thing would have such unbelievably ridiculous angle strain that if a molecule of it was ever assembled, it would almost certainly degrade instantly. Possibly violently.
Pause and ponder the periodic parapodia paddling from this pterrifically ptiny pteropod!
Sea angels (Clione sp.) recently returned to Into the Deep/En lo Profundo. Be shore to stay tuned for animal updates as you never know who youβll meet in this ever-evolving exhibit!
Want to learn more about sea angels? Check out our video collab with SciShow!
Itβs well known that electric fields can guide the movements of skin cells, nudging them towards the site of an injury for instance. In fact, the human body generates an electric field that does this naturally. So researchers from the University of Freiburg in Germany set out to amplify the effect.
While it might not heal severe injuries with the speed of a Marvel superhero, it could radically reduce the time it takes for small tears and lacerations to recover.
For people with chronic wounds that take a long time to heal, such as in elderly folk, those with diabetes, or people with poor blood circulation, recovering quickly from frequent small, open cuts could be a literal lifesaver.
βChronic wounds are a huge societal problem that we donβt hear a lot about,β says Maria Asplund, a bioelectronics scientist at the University of Freiburg and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.
βOur discovery of a method that may heal wounds up to three times faster can be a game changer for diabetic and elderly people, among others, who often suffer greatly from wounds that wonβt heal.β
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Metatrichia floriformis by sir.myxo.lot
Mushrooms releasing spores into the wind. Captured by Paul Stamets
Hemitrichia serpula by rorymacro
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. poroides
by fungispot
Lamproderma scintillans by yuweijun98