Linking violence in Myanmar to fossil amber research, and waking up bacterial spores
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Is Your Microbe Sensing the Environment?
The spores are able to count these signals while they're still dormant and by all means kind of dead. So this is a memory accumulating kind of saying, oh, yeah, it does look like the environment is different. And whenever they sense the second event, they're like, oh, this is the second time. It means there's lots of food around. And then they're more likely to germinate. The first thing we thought was that if we knock out the potassium pump that spore is using when it's being made - maybe they'll change their propensity for germination. We wanted to look at the spores at the single cell level. so we combined microscopy to that
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