Allergies of all kinds can make your eyes itch, and it's a mammalian reflex to rub. This scratching tendency can do more than dislodge a few lashes. Rubbing your eyes a lot can rip the conjunctiva, the thin, clear, slippery-soft mucus lining that protects the eye from hostile bacteria. ...
Startup companies, especially those in high-tech industries, are expected to grow quite rapidly. For Y Combinator companies (a well-known tech incubator), a good growth rate is considered to be 5% to 7% per week of revenues, while an exceptional growth rate is 10% per week.3Thus, a sta...
Although many bacteria grow in a free-living, ‘planktonic’ state, it is quite common for them to adhere to surfaces by producing extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), e.g. biofilms. Due to their higher resistance against antimicrobial agents, an interesting option in antibacterial research ...
If you want to perform imaging of adherent cells, such as to undertakecancer cell microscopy, you need to fix them to your microscope slides. Luckily for you, this is fairly easy to do, thanks to the fact that adherent cells are, well, adherent, and like to grow on plastic or glass—...
Trapping air means not enough airflow, which creates the perfect incubator for mold to start its growing process if the spores are already stuck in that space. Additionally, some growers add orange peels or fruit peels to keep the cannabis fresh, but all this does is blend the buds with ...
which is the smallest bacteria—only a few tenths of a micron across. “Mycoplasmas are fastidious in their growth requirements,” Zhu says. “Their small size and lack of a cell wall allow mycoplasmas to grow to very high densities in cell culture often without any visible signs of contami...
(for Spiderman Tek). But by being careful, the risk of contamination from airborne spores or bacteria is small, especially when using a Still Air Box* (more on that below), because air exposure is minimal and the layer of vermiculite we add to the top of the substrate acts as a filter...
In addition to creating more extensive content, social media can be used as an “idea incubator” to see which concepts your audience likes the most. You can then build those out into more comprehensiveresources. Share relevant updates, stories, quotes, images and quick tips with your followers...
Lawyers shouldn’t simply accept stress as part and parcel of the job. Instead, lawyers can work to recognize the symptoms, be wary of the effects, and actively put effort into having healthy responses to stressors. Here’s how you can do this effectively. ...
LX:The material that our collaborators at Caltech in the Tirrell lab are developing use eitherE. coliorB. subtilis[both bacteria] as the living component. My work was inE. coliand the way that we made the model samples for our study was to first grow a small number of cells in liqui...