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Honestly just inhibiting the helicase should be enough! It would irreversibly stall the replication!

Micro Monday! Shoot me your microbiology questions and I’ll try my hardest to answer them 😊🧪🧪

I have officially been accepted into a PhD program!

PubMed is good! Also a certain site affiliated with a raven is really good for accessing paywalled articles. If you’d rather go the proper route, often just emailing the researcher and asking for a copy of the paper works!

Are you referring to sites where research is published or how to access paywalled research?

Sorry for my absence, my job involves monitoring my state legislative session very closely. That being said it’s Wednesday so hit me with some questions you may have about basic scientific principles! 🧪

I’m not finding any solid studies done on this so it looks like this might be anecdotal. That being said the bugs I deal with are microbes so I’m by no means an entomologist

Hmmmn this is interesting since Trikafta is specific to the F508del mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. I think that specificity would make it hard to treat anything else

Outside of maneuverability (one leg being longer than the other wouldn’t make for good mobility) and camouflage (ensuring attack on critical areas is avoided on both sides) I can’t find anything concrete…so I’m gonna say it’s because nature is ✨an aesthetic girly✨

Science basics today! Shoot me your questions and I’ll see if I can answer them or direct you to someone who can! 🧪

And if I said they’re also for some reason doing this too in the name of “gut health”…. It’s a mess out here

Masking

Just my two cents on what’s going on in KC and how public health is integral to fostering community in the next 4 years and beyond; a very short🧵🧪

Sorry for being absent…but girl…it’s a hard time to know facts and information

Thanks Mike!

I think it depends on what you’re trying to achieve! Could you be a bit more specific

Resistant how?

Most likely no as most fungi are host specific, and also I am not going to arm you with that info :)

It’s where I try to answer any questions you may have about microbiology!

Welcome back to Micro Mondays! Let’s hear your questions folks! 🧪

With no CDC or centralized data aggregation, reporting of cases won’t prompt forensics, or alarms. Public awareness of food borne illness will result from food sellers’ ~voluntary notifications, independent journalists, court filings, and rumors. Denial will be the norm.

While I’m not sure it’s a goal (other than lining their rich company owner friend’s pockets) it most certainly will be an unintended consequence

Exactly!

Make sure you personally are practicing the most food safe behaviors, uplifting local food scientists, and either introducing or voting for local/state regulation of foods for food safety!

Pandemics also cripple economies. While most foodborne illnesses aren’t likely to cause a pandemic, they leave folks immunocompromised and more vulnerable to the inevitable next pandemic, yet again weakening the work force and in turn our economy!

Food recalls make produce infinitely more expensive. Think about berries and chicken products skyrocketing amidst an outbreak this year. Combining this with the loss of produce and meat packing workers to deportation, groceries are most likely going to SKYROCKET as deregulation continues-

The new admin plans on slashing funding to the FDA, USDA, and CDC. Folks don’t realize that food recalls cost the American economy over $1.2 billion in losses annually, based on illness alone. These entities are crucial to keeping food systems safe-

Something I don’t think most folks realize is the food recalls are not only a threat to health and human safety, but also an economic threat. Trump’s plans are about to make it so much worse. I’ll elaborate below🧪-

I wouldn’t risk it!

There is CJD like disease showing in hunters who have consumed meat from deer infected with CWD🙃