In this edition of This Month in Microbiology, we feature the Contamination World Cup, huge phages, coronavirus resources, and bacterial warfare.
Category: Microbiology Research Updates
This Month on Microbiology Twitter – January 2020
I probably spend way too much time on Twitter browsing the latest science news and getting distracted by all the cool things in the microbial world. Yes, Science Twitter is a great place to find relevant research papers. Here’s a few things that caught my eye this month.
A year of microbes
Of course there are way too many microbiology stories than I can blog about. Here are some other fascinating finds throughout the year: A bacteria that eats plastic: Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is a component of many plastic products that have accumulated in large quantities in the environment. Researchers have isolated a bacterium that uses PET…