Taylor Burke

The image is a graph titled "Reported paralytic polio cases and deaths, United States, 1910 to 2019," from Our World in Data. It shows the annual number of polio cases (in red) and deaths (in green). A sharp decline in both cases and deaths occurs after the introduction of the polio vaccine in 1957, which is marked with an arrow labeled "Vaccine introduced in 1957." The graph illustrates the dramatic impact of vaccination on reducing polio cases and fatalities over time.

Vaccines stopped polio.

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Bright green spots are phages (viruses), bacteria are the faint rods in light blue.

We developed a microscopy-based technique🔬 to measure attachment of viruses #phages to host cells. 🦠

The paper was posted online today:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#phagesky #microsky

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The Great Grocery Squeeze How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert

Food deserts "didn’t materialize around the country for no reason," Stacy Mitchell writes. "Something happened. That something was a specific federal policy change in the 1980s."

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TNA documentation — TNA 0.0.1 documentation

I just made a first release of TNA - new tool to compare 2 bacterial genomes. Is shamelessly inspired by ACT, but should be simpler to use. Drag-n-drop two genomes: it runs BLAST for you and then you can visualize. For Mac, Windows 11, Linux tna.readthedocs.io

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We call this one “Borrelia touched a nerve”. You're seeing a cluster of Borrelia burgdorferi, adipose cells, and a nerve.

We call this one under attack. You're seeing Borrelia burgdorferi, inside the body, surrounded by immune cells.

The never before seen Borrelia burgdorferi caught in the act of making trouble in our mouse model of borrelia infection-associated chronic illness. I feel so grateful to get to collaborate with Kunzan Liu (who took these sunning images), and Sixian You who makes the invisible visible.

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I think the answer to your question is species dependent. A factor to consider is what niche a microbe inhabits. Some organisms like Listeria grow as soil saprophyte and inside a human host. The transcriptome in both environments are different, so they encode both to be successful.

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Elegantly put Dr. Liu, thank you for sharing this message.

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Rethinking how to understand the burden of antibiotic resistance bacteria (RHUBARB) | LSHTM A joint seminar between CMMID and the AMR Centre. Speaker will present their research, focusing on evaluating the burden of AMR.

Now is the age of #AMR burden estimates - join us to hear from the expert @bugwonk.bsky.social next Thursday at 12.50 for

"Rethinking how to understand the burden of antibiotic resistance bacteria (RHUBARB)"

@lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

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A reminder to publish in and support society journals with your limited (volunteer) time as authors, editors, and reviewers.

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