Lowkey Sad That The Studyblr Tag Went From Being A Functional Tag Where People Shared Notes And Planners

15.9.2024. reorganizing

Inside Penrose's universe – Physics World

Physics World

Inside Penrose's universe – Physics World

<b>Julian Barbour</b> thinks the ideas in Roger Penrose's new book are "implausible"

Feels like summer 23.07.2024.

Eukaryotic cell gang!! We love women in STEM.

The organelles of the cells have been translated into human anatomy, so the nucleus is the brain, the vacuole function as the lungs, and the mitochondria is the heart since it’s the… you already know, I don’t have to say it ;)

my watery friend... are you too brushed with the pattern of the dappled light...?

I've read a few things recently on how people categorize everything ( by colors, forms, animal kingdoms...) naming something is bringing it in existence , giving it definition and making it different from all the other things. Words are containers of concepts, we see ourselves as being contained within the body, within the space or time. We put invisible borders around things and define them as a way to bring them into existence.

there is no greater joy on this earth than Making Lists, Categorizing, & Sorting

Unusual antibiotic killing mechanism we just published in Nature

Our study about the unusual molecular mechanism behind the antibiotic activity of teixobactin can be read open access here: 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05019-y

Figure: The target of teixobactin are bacteria-specific molecules (e.g. they do not exist in human cells) in outer membranes of bacteria. Teixobactin sits on the membrane and aggregates into fibrils, damaging the bacterial membrane and hindering its functions. We got these images by atomic force microscopy that has nanometer resolution. We can see individual teixobactin molecules coming to the bacterial membrane and forming the aggregate.

This is the first star from my research on antibiotics that I started at my postdoc in the Netherlands. More are coming out soon! The very first star was published in Nature, the most read journal in life sciences. I am in scientific heaven!

feeling very normal about this