Ebola virus invader proteins battle against host proteins. A body’s immune system against Ebola virus It is easy to talk about Ebola when what’s going on in West Africa is thousands of kilometers away and I’m sitting at my desk in Paris. And we can’t feel anything but...
Take a thimble full of water, a pinch of earth or a test tube of air, and in each container you literally have billions of viruses. There are countless species science has never and will never have time to study or list. Viruses not only have a phenomenal rate of...
Bacteria Cells exchange bits of DNA like an all you can eat smorgasbord. Bacteria cells, after viruses which we shall discuss, are the most widespread microorganisms on Earth. They are known as ‘prokaryotes’, cells with NO nucleus which contain the ‘hereditary’...
Science discovers how beneficial bacteria affect not only our bodies but our brains in multiple ways. Bacteria can live alone, but they generally come in groups called microbiota or ecosystems of bacteria. Each of us has dozens of such microbiota in and on various...
Without microbes, there’d be no life on Earth. In fact, microbes have the largest population of all living organisms on our planet. You have billions on each fingertip right now. With the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, there’s a need to see microbes in a larger light....
How did you come along with your definition of characteristics Life after my last post ‘I Dare you to Define Life?’ For want of a couple of words or a one sentence definition of Life, like: ‘an organism that displays certain characteristics between its birth and...