I need help with my science work!!!!!

I need to find out about microorganisms including bacteria and fungi and how the benefit society? But my google and other search things doesnt work!!!! anyone know? - i basically have to do a presentation a week thursday on this crap.

 

wiggy send me a pm with your e-mail addy and i can get the info you need from google and send it to you ok?
hippiewise

 

:cough antibiotics cough:

 

No cheese/bread/booze/digestion*/septic sysytems............help me out Folks


* see above Thread

 

You know the Bug Lady? *L*
She ran a World Class Olefins Plant's Bug Farm whose effluent was discharged into the Gulf via a river...

Startup was almost delayed because the bugs kept croaking - no bugs, no Permit.

 

What level is your essay pitched? If its GCSE or A-level then there is plenty of stuff on the net. If your looking at uni then google is probably going to be insufficient. I would suggest looking at review articles in journals. Scholar.google.com is a good place to start.

 

hey wiggy! its realy not crap! if you look into it it could be verey interesting ! there are lots of things that are being done with the study of mycology including bioremediation (cleaning our enviroment) finding coumponds that are benifital to our health and so on ! one of the best scources that i know of and can point you to outhers as far as fungi go is www.fungi.com i have not been to this site yet but have read some books by the owner ! so look around paul stamens can get you interested if no one else can the possibillitys are just yet being discoverd!!! have fun do good work! peace!

 

go to the mycotechnology page !

 

stamens, what a great fucking name for a biologist....



way better for a botanist though.....

 

thats funny but i messed up its actualy stamets sorry !

 

One area of concern regarding infectious bacterial microorganisms are their increasing resistance to antibiotics. If any species of bacteria were to develop that couldn't be killed by antibiotics, and if it were sufficiently lethal and communicable, we'd be in very serious trouble. Our whole mindset in the Western world is to rely on chemical agents (antibiotics) to kill these bacteria but if these are rendered ineffective because the bacteria have adapted to them so they are no longer lethal, then theoretically millions upon millions, even billions of people could die as a result. It could happen, don't think it can't! Imagine, maybe 3/4th of the world population - gone man! Just, gone. Can u even imagine the consequences?

Well, i mean, when you think of it, I would hate to see all those people go, but if you were one of the lucky ones, i mean, i kinda hate myself for saying this but it would be freaking great! so much less crowded! the Earth could heal and much of it grow wild as it once was. it would almost be like starting over, like paradise revisited and yet we'd still have all the technological advances going, only we'd adjust where we went wrong 'cause all the greedy ass evil industrialists and empire promoters would be gone too, assuming the bacteria superbug was deadly enuf.

oops, sorry, got carried away.

What i was gonna say was for you to look up "bacteriophage" and you will see how there is an entirely natural cure for ANY wild ass killer bacteria that would evolve even though there is no chemical antibiotic that works. Clinics in russia have successfully employed bacteriophages and other less rigidly controllable and packagable technologies for decades, to routinely fight bacterial infections of every sort. It works. But the Western world has remained uninterested because you can't make money off these natural processes as you can with synthetic drugs.

So, my suggestion for a kick ass paper, isn't to attempt to review all the different ways bacteria and fungus exist and function in a healthy symbiosis with our species, but rather to focus on this topic, viral bacteriophage's, and describe what they are and how they may have an incredible life saving role in our perhaps near future.

 

Well playing with viruses could still be very lurcrative for the biotech companies. If no know species exists for the bacteria you wish to attack then of course you have to engineering an existing virus mostly people seem to work with T4 and E. Coli. Im never comfortable with the idea of playing with something that evolves as qucikly as a virus.

 

I'd agree w/you if it was an artificial technique but actually it's not. Bacteriophage that is SPECIFIC for any given bacteria arises naturally, simply on exposure of phage to bacteria. Thats how it occurs in nature, on its own. There is a different and specific bacteriophage for each kind, species, type of bacteria. I'm not sure of the exact mechanism, but the Russian clinic that was discussed in the NOVA program (a few years ago) I watched, would somehow sample and incubate water from the waste effluent of the hospital and were then able to harvest isolate and purify many different and active types of phage that way. They saved the lives of people who were infected with resistant bacteria by administering the right type of phage. So, it's a naturaly occuring process and doesn't require genetic engineering or any other artificial intervention other than the purification of what nature has already wrought.

peace out