Dec 19
Gird your immune system because what you’re about to read will make you sick. No, seriously, it’s dangerous. Like Contagion-level dangerous
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Dec 13
With a breakthrough that will finally help Halloween top Christmas as the best holiday ever, scientists at the Berlin-based biotech lab Organo Balance claim to have developed a candy that doesn’t cause cavities. You’ll still get sick and pack on the pounds from gorging on sweets, but if you forget to brush your teeth, your chompers won’t rot out of your head.
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Nov 27
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you never had to worry about germs crawling around on your kitchen countertop? Well, thanks to a new discovery by Australian scientists, that could soon be a reality. And it doesn’t require a drop of disinfectant.
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Nov 20
Get ready to hold a little vom down in your throat. These carpet-looking thingamajigs are actually cheese made with human bacteria, such as the kind you’d find in your belly button or in your nose or in your salty tears or on your skin or on your toe. It’s beyond gross and, if you really really think about it, makes the very idea of cheese seem disgusting.
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Oct 14
Scientists recently discovered a new type of botulinum toxin (a.k.a. botox) that they believe is the deadliest substance known to man. Because they’ve yet to discover an antitoxin, researchers won’t publish the details of gene sequence due to security concerns—a first for the scientific community. Thank God.
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Oct 07
The natural world might be awe-inspiring, but that’s not to say that it doesn’t share similarities with the technological world that we inhabit. In fact, as biologists have come to look at creatures in closer detail, they’ve discovered that some of them have been using basics of engineering—that we now take for granted—all along. Here are five of our favorite creatures that have evolved into biological machines.
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Sep 30
Korean researchers have engineered a new strain of E. coli that can produce a suitable substitute for gasoline. And as they quite rightly point out, bacteria that poops out petroleum could be some valuable shit.
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Aug 27
Here’s something to bring up the next time you’re eating after being a winner winner: you don’t actually have to wash the raw chicken with water before you cook it. In fact, science is saying that it’s definitely worse to wash a chicken with water because you might spray all kinds of bacteria from the kitchen all over your kitchen, sink and yourself without even knowing. So yes, next time you’re eating chicken for dinner, just go straight to cooking. It may seem unsanitary but that’s actually the best way to kill the bacteria on a raw chicken. [DrexelUniv via Consumerist]
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Aug 23
There’s a reason surgeons wear masks and gloves. The last thing you want is to get crap in someone’s body. That is, unless you are one of the two UC Davis Medical Center neurosurgeons who very purposely introduced their patents’ brains to poop bacteria. It was a real shit-for-brains way of trying to help.
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Aug 13
Wow. This is incredible. Captured by high-definition microscopy, the footage shows the buzzing world and slimy life inside a single drop of pond water. It’s completely alien, it’s unnerving and it makes your stomach turn itself inside out. There are brown flatworms, Medusa looking nematodes, starfish-like hydras ‘defecating’ and more oozy organisms.
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