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Quantal Bioscience is a small company doing big things with tiny microbes. We love bringing the amazing world of microbiology and science research to all.



Microbial Art. These artworks were created using living microbes growing on agar. Agar is a gelatin-like substance that serves as food for the microorganisms. Theses are the winners of the 4th annual Agar Art contest. Credit: The American Society for Microbiology

Bacteria were once thought to be lonely, independent unicellular organisms. This, of course, was a gross oversimplification. Bacteria aggregate to form multicellular communities that behave as a single organism & cooperate to keep this "self" alive. schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/201…













Another argument for why we need to take the early years of schooling seriously via @forbes #439cdcf97f27" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">forbes.com/sites/nickmorr…



'Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.' ~Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972 #WednesdayWisdom

An Aedes aegypti-associated fungus increases susceptibility to dengue virus by modulating gut trypsin activity @eLife elifesciences.org/articles/28844
