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RFK, Jr. Wants to Let Bird Flu Spread on Poultry Farms. Why Experts Are Concerned Health secretary RFK, Jr. has repeatedly suggested that farmers should let bird flu spread through flocks. Experts explain why that’s a dangerous idea

www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...
Kennedy recently told Fox News that by letting the highly pathogenic bird flu spread through flocks, farmers could “identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it.”

22.03.2025 04:27 — 👍 29    🔁 13    💬 9    📌 4

A new flavor of synthetic yeast communities sees the light
Full text: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39912663/
#yeast #saccharomyces #microbiology

10.03.2025 23:37 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Take a look at this article and comments, about the great female researchers ignored by the Nobel committee.

08.03.2025 06:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Diversity and biotech potential of wild yeast isolates from Ireland at University College Dublin on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Diversity and biotech potential of wild yeast isolates from Ireland at University College Dublin, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD positions on yeast available in my lab in science-friendly Ireland! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

26.02.2025 22:43 — 👍 19    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 2

Carbon efficient production of chemicals with yeasts Production of chemicals with yeasts may be hampered by low yield due to carbon loss. The causes for carbon loss in metabolic processes are discussed, as well as approaches to avoid carbon loss and op....

For some general concepts to design carbon conserving pathways in yeasts see our review in @yeast-journal.bsky.social here:
doi.org/10.1002/yea....

01.03.2025 18:53 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The Hidden Global Diversity of the Yeast Genus Carlosrosaea: A Biodiversity Databases Perspective A systematic literature review combined with the use of public biodiversity databases was employed to compile and clarify the ecological, biogeographical, and taxonomic knowledge of the yeast genus C....

In this research article of the latest Yeast issue, Ciro Ramon Félix, Hector M. C. Navarro & Melissa Fontes Landell describe the poorly-known #yeast genus Carlosrosaea, revealing its geographic distribution, ecological patterns, and taxonomic potential.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

03.03.2025 16:34 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

INRAE au #SIA2025 : 3 rencontres ce vendredi 28 février :

✅ 10h L’alimentation comme alliée du mieux vieillir
✅ 14h Des recherches aux solutions pour de nouvelles variétés
✅ 16h La décarbonation de l’agriculture : réalités, contraintes et opportunités

Programme url.inrae.fr/4jtDYCL

28.02.2025 07:52 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

QTL mapping reveals novel genes and mechanisms underlying variations in H2S production during alcoholic fermentation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae The hydrogen sulfide production of Saccharomyces cerevisiae during alcoholic fermentation is regulated by zinc homeostasis and interconnected with cell met

I am really proud to highlight the work of the Ph D thesis of I De Guidi , published in FEMS Yeast research (@femsjournals.bsky.social), that was awarded the price of best article in 2024
academic.oup.com/femsyr/artic...

24.02.2025 12:58 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Groupe de poules en prairie qui picorent

Vers un vaccin universel contre la grippe aviaire ? Des scientifiques ont conçu une formulation vaccinale à base de nanoparticules du virus #H5N1 pour protéger les animaux contre toutes les souches ➡️Les poulets vaccinés sont protégés à 100 % et ne transmettent plus le virus.

👉 url.inrae.fr/42ZI7st

23.02.2025 09:00 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

🎉 INRAE vous donne rdv au #SIA2025 pour découvrir comment nos recherches se transforment en solutions concrètes pour toutes les agricultures 🌾
🗣️Venez échanger sur notre stand avec près de 200 scientifiques, ingénieurs et techniciens

Le programme complet
👉 www.inrae.fr/salon-agricu...

22.02.2025 10:35 — 👍 31    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1

Comment et pourquoi le marché de l'électricité a déraillé - les économistes atterrés Une note rédigée par David Cayla pour comprendre l’impasse dans laquelle l’ouverture à la concurrence a plongé le marché de l’électricité. « Interrogée par les députés européens le 8 juin dernier, la ...

vite.
Une nouvelle fois, c'est hallucinant la qualité des textes que nous, universitaires, produisons gratuitement.
Si seulement plus de journalistes des grands médias avaient la modestie et l'intelligence de nous lire... @davidcayla.bsky.social
www.atterres.org/comment-et-p...

23.02.2025 05:53 — 👍 31    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1

This is figure 1, which shows the global distribution of study locations of pesticide impact on non-target organisms.

A study in Nature Communications found that insecticides, fungicides and herbicides have negative effects on non-target plants, animals and microorganisms within terrestrial and aquatic systems. https://go.nature.com/4aY865i 🧪

23.02.2025 02:24 — 👍 93    🔁 25    💬 0    📌 2

📢 #Yeast2025 News!
Registration and abstract submission are NOW OPEN!
Join us at the 32nd ICYGMB
📅 Save the Date: 21-24 July 2025
📍 Location: Paris @sorbonne-universite.fr
🔗 Submit: premc.org/yeast2025/su...
🕒 Register now to take advantage of the Early Bird fee premc.org/yeast2025/re...

14.01.2025 07:28 — 👍 34    🔁 28    💬 2    📌 2

Looking for a bio-economically themed way to pass holiday travel time? Consider binging our 3-part #GenomeInsider podcast series about—in part—Lake Mendota and the time @quendi.bsky.social tried to bust our computers. (Spoiler: She didn’t😉)

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25.11.2024 17:37 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

The Global Biodata Coalition has an open letter campaign to show support for sustainable funding for biodata resources. Please take a minute to read and sign globalbiodata.org/open-letter-...

02.12.2024 19:08 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

A blueprint for broadly effective bacteriophage-antibiotic cocktails against bacterial infections - Nature Communications The application of phage therapy for multidrug-resistant infections is mainly limited to personalized therapy due to the narrow host range of individual phages. Here, Kim et al. identify groups of pha...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

02.12.2024 07:58 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0