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How Microbes Control Hosts - Psychology, Special Needs, Health - Posted: 18th May, 2017 - 10:58pm
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How Microbes Control Their Hosts
Microbes seen controlling action of host's genes. Microbes can control their animal hosts by manipulating the molecular machinery of their cells, triggering patterns of gene expression that consequently contribute to health and disease, new research shows. The work, which was conducted in zebrafish and mice cells, could have implications for human inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Ref. Source 3i
A microorganism or microbe is a microscopic organism, which may be single-celled or multicellular. The study of microorganisms is called microbiology, a subject that began with the discovery of microorganisms in the 1670s by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Robert Hooke coined the term "Cell" after viewing plant cells under his microscope. Later, in the 19th century, Louis Pasteur found that microorganisms caused food spoilage, debunking the theory of spontaneous generation. In 1876 Robert Koch discovered that microorganisms cause diseases. Ref. Source 6c
Image from Wikimedia A cluster of Escherichia coli bacteria magnified 10,000 times public domain.
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Post Date: 18th May, 2017 - 10:58pm / Post ID: #
Hosts Control Microbes How
Yes, all of this can have a positive impact on humanity, allowing us to live longer and healthier lives. But here is the thing, first, we are living so long now we are starting to strain the Earth's capacity to support us. Second, do we really know if something we are messing around with won't unleash a plague to make other plagues seem tame?
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