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defenestration (English) [diˌfɛnəˈstɹeɪʃən] The act of throwing someone out of a window

What they never realized was that all along the way, from humble microbes to starship captains, someone had guided them at every turn, and that someone...is you.

Mosquito Finito

Killing harmful insects with pesticides often threatens innocent life nearby, but a new method to tackle Culex pipiens mosquitos focuses on control rather than killing. Looking at how Culex sperm fertilise female eggs (pictured), a team of researchers used mass spectrometry to find proteins that help the sperm’s tail – its flagellum – to waggle its way towards the egg. Developing treatments to block these proteins leaves the Culex alive but infertile, reducing the spread diseases like West Nile virus. It’s likely that other mosquito species have similar sperm-powering proteins such as those that carry malaria, and these may be tackled too. The insects may even yield clues to how similar proteins work in human fertility, giving answers to how struggling sperm can be helped rather than hindered.

Written by John Ankers

Image from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA

Research by Catherine D. Thaler et al, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

Image in the Public Domain

Research published in PLOS ONE, February 2023

hey guys!!

super proud of this, so i thought i’d share :))

So I’m feeling motivated this week in lab again.

For those who don’t know, my main project in lab is looking to see if this efflux pump in pylori is involved in making flagella. Im order to check this it involves lots of flagella samples lol. Which leads me to my sometimes weekly 40 plates of bacteria

Behold my army !