Swathi

👩🏻‍🔬Scientist | 🦠Microbes | ⚡️Metabolism | 🧪Chemistry | 🐌Patterns | 🌎 Earth

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Biologists are growing frustrated as Anthropic’s “safe” Mythos-class model refuses to answer basic biology questions.

[Ancient Biology @KacarLab]

New work: Eukaryotic origins! 🥁

We propose that iron -not oxygen- delayed the rise of complex life. Our model reframes the “oxygen delay” puzzle: the gap between atmospheric O2 and early eukaryotic fossils may reflect iron (not O2)-mediated stress:

https://t.co/LY8heO8wvq

[Datta Lab @TheSquishyLab]

Many biological fluids are polymer solutions, whose viscoelasticity can enhance cell swimming and promote large-scale mixing.
Babak & @sesgonzalez showed that the core-shell organization also arises in polymer solutions, but with fascinating additional flow fluctuations. [7/8]

[Datta Lab @TheSquishyLab]

Excited to release our latest work, led by @BabakVH:
https://t.co/OYEiklWDco

Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥

Tweetorial follows! [1/8]

[Swathi @swath_1]

@ArchaeaPowerHr @lei1231898 @deepakdbg90 hello, i have also registered but have not received the zoom link, thank you for your help!

[Leibniz-Institut DSMZ @Leibniz_DSMZ_en]

To honour Alice Catherine Evans for her studies of the bacteriology of milk and cheese and proving the risk of consumption of raw milk DSMZ researchers named the strain Streptomyces evansiae (DSM 41979) after her.

#WomenInScience #pasteurisation #actinomycetes #brucellosis

[Pandemic Center at Brown School of Public Health @pandemiccenter]

Article by @Statnews reveals that the #H5N1 virus from Canadian teen has a mutation that may make it easier to infect humans. This case is unique, as the mutation hasn't been found in other patients, but suggests the potential for a more severe virus.

https://t.co/CgIQBDY0mI

[Nature Reviews Microbiology @NatureRevMicro]

Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe🌎

This paper is a call to action. By publishing concurrently across journals like an emergency bulletin, we are not merely making a plea for awareness about climate change.

[Nature Reviews Microbiology @NatureRevMicro]

#weekendreading🦠👇

Mechanism of bacterial predation via ixotrophy

@ScienceMagazine

https://t.co/a1ckrjZjW6

[Betül Kaçar @betulland]

Excited to share my review on reconstructing early life, out @AnnualReviews!

It covers past and future prospects for reviving extinct biochemistry, and how integrating our 4-billion-year planetary history with biochemical evolution can advance biology.

https://t.co/wtEgoUZfeZ

[Joe Zackular @joeyzacks]

Delighted to share our work developing an mRNA vaccine for C. difficile, published today in @ScienceMagazine. This study with @WeissmanLab was co-led by two truly amazing scientists: @_alexafluor from the Zackular lab and @MgAlameh (now at @CHOP_Research)! https://t.co/jHXMgQMpc6

[Xavier Lab @TheXavierLab]

Exciting collab with @Honda1Kenya’s lab, out today in @Nature: A set of microbial strains taken from a human faecal donor can decolonize multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in the gut, including species associated with #IBD. (1/3) https://t.co/mueHnfwS1c

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

On #CloudAppreciationDay, Rachel Carson's lost serenade to the science of the sky, newly illustrated https://t.co/rhG6AxdXm4

[mSphere @mSphereJ]

#mSphere Editor's Pick: In the long term, this work indicates that modulation of metabolism could make Bacteroides more susceptible during infections or protect them in the context of the microbiome. https://t.co/XXosMWTaud

[Cell Reports @CellReports]

Spatial analysis of murine microbiota and bile acid metabolism during amoxicillin treatment https://t.co/tUgIUT6PJe

[John Oliver @iamjohnoliver]

Here's our piece from Sunday about deep-sea mining...https://t.co/iMNUekjmcu

[Xavier Lab @TheXavierLab]

Excited to share our latest study uncovering gut microbes and microbial metabolites linked to cardiovascular health! We show that Oscillibacter is associated w/decreased cholesterol in human subjects & that these bacteria take up &metabolize cholesterol.

https://t.co/WOCKfF1xHG

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

#EarthDay was largely inspired by Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring." Here is the bittersweet story behind how and why she wrote it: https://t.co/DRwh8xuzi8

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: The hyphal-specific toxin candidalysin promotes fungal gut commensalism https://t.co/nlt50jrRSP

[Ariel Furst @afurst1]

Congrats @academicnadia @graceianderson and the rest of the authors!!! @mit_dmse @MITChemE