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Showing posts with label Microlife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microlife. Show all posts

Saturday, October 27, 2018

Weekend Wonders: Dust

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-best-electron-microscope-photos

Saturday, October 20, 2018

Saturday, October 13, 2018

Weekend Wonders: Viruses

A popular introduction to viruses:



Computer animation of a bacteriophage T4 virus attacking an E. Coli cell:



How the bacteriophage T4 virus puts itself together inside its host:



30 minutes from T4's initial attack to exploding the host and spreading multiple new copies of itself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterobacteria_phage_T4#Infection_process

How? Every second, there are more chemical reactions inside one cell in your body than you could count aloud in your entire lifetime.
https://www.quora.com/On-average-how-many-chemical-reactions-happen-in-the-body-in-one-second

Saturday, September 29, 2018