Plush Microbes! (Another must see for squid!)

[Blue Eagle]

The mention of of yeast in the Bone Worms thread reminded me of
this (http://www.giantmicrobes.com/) website.
Plushy dolls that look like various microbes, including the adorable
yeast! (http://www.giantmicrobes.com/exotics/beerandbread.html)

[Smaug]

I want to buy some and burn them, for all the pain they caused me!

*the flu! burn you fark burn*

*Smaug laughs sadistic* :evilnod:

[ilia1986]

Doubleyou Tee Ef !!!

[SquidDNA]

I basically had the yeast on preorder for my labmates.

[Blue Eagle]

So I take it that youve seen this before?

[Artoo]

they are actually kinda cute :tooth:

[Smaug]

they are actually kinda cute :tooth:

So would the Candiru to if you made a pet out of it! :hmm:

[AntaresSITH]

i also want some bad guys there.. like hepatitis B (i hope it was B), AIDS and SARS ^^

[Starfisher]

This reminds me of the Chappelle show where they did the Sesame Street parody song about STDs...

[SquidDNA]

Antares, not (http://www.giantmicrobes.com/calamities/flesheating.html) bad (http://www.giantmicrobes.com/calamities/blackdeath.html)
enough (http://www.giantmicrobes.com/calamities/ebola.html) for you?

Blue Eagle, yeah, I ordered these for Christmas gifts last year. :)

[Elukka]

Stomach ache? Ear ache? The flu? Cough? The common cold? Sore throat? Keep those away from me! Hey good smiley, Artoo. I've never seen it before. :tooth:

[Reignfire]

i also want some bad guys there.. like hepatitis B (i hope it was B), AIDS and SARS ^^

If you go to the bottom of the main page theirs a 'GIANTmicrobes™ PROFESSIONAL' where they have HIV (http://www.giantmicrobes.com/professional/hiv.html) and Hepatitis (http://www.giantmicrobes.com/professional/hepatitis.html).

[Artoo]

I simply have to give one of those to my friend, hehehe :D

I already told one today about those cuddly microbes, she was all wtf about that idea, rofl...

[AntaresSITH]

outch..

next time i should waste a little more tome doing research before posting :( :salute: :cry: :bow:

[Handarazuur]

I remember that Sesame Street thing! It's like when they did the Muppets version of 'She Bangs' by Ricky Martin.

Damn those are cute viruses.

*cuddles the Plague.

[SquidDNA]

I have the plauge at home. It is cute, and isn't an obligate pathogen. :)

[Blue Eagle]

"It is cute, and isn't an obligate pathogen."

Huh? Care to tell us non-biologists what that means?

[SquidDNA]

Oh, actually, I'm wrong. Y. pestis, apparently in North America, anyway, depends entirely upon killing things to live, as far as I can tell. Prarie dogs and fleas. Damn fleas. But it's so cuddly-wuddly!

Sorry, pathogen = something causing a disease, obligate = does so all the time.

To explain "obligate" further, "aerobe" is someone who needs oxygen and "anaerobe" is someone who doesn't need oxygen. An "obligate anaerobe" is someone who not only doesn't need oxygen, but has to be without oxygen, they can't tolerate it. An obligate pathogen is thus a full-time pathogen.

This is in contrast to, say, anthrax, which could give two damns about cattle or people and spends over 99% of the time thriving in the soil and just happens to occasionally cause disease.

[Dimension]

heehee squid, yer wrong.

aerobe: needs oxygen

microaerophile: lives in a zone of low oxygen concentration (but needs oxygen)

facultative anaerobe: is anaerobe, but tolerates oxygen

anaerobe: oxygen is toxic

saying something is obligate anaerobe is like beating a dead horse twice ;)

anyways, ebola looks very cool. and do they have marburg? beccause i was born in the town it was named after :D

[SquidDNA]

Dimmy, your explanation is more accurate, but point to the place where I'm wrong. "Anaerobe" is a general term referring to the abilitiy to live without oxygen, an obligate anaerobe specifically describes oxygen toxicitiy.

:google: (http://www.google.com/search?q=obligate+anaerobe&sourceid=firefox&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)

[Artoo]

oh, go cuddle the plague and quit your scientific nonsense you two :p

[Asklepios]

Eeer... Mind if I chime in ? :D "obligate anaerobes" is not a pleonasm, since facultative anaerobes can live in both aerobe and anaerobe environments, so you have to specify what kind of anaerobe it is. It is a problem with current microbiological nomenclature. Also, while oxygen is toxic to them, they can perfectly persist in it when for example forming into spores, like Clostridia sp.


I find the "cuddlies" not funny at all... Even "kissing disease"-pathogen Eppstein-Barr virus becomes a hated virus when you treat children with a bad case of it.

[SquidDNA]

But EBV is one of the cuter ones, with the girlie eyelashes.

[Blue Eagle]

Yeast and the common cold are the most cuddle-tastic of them all!
Thats it, im starting a poll!

[SquidDNA]

When I presented them to people in the lab, my advisor took one look at the brown horns on the yeast, shook her head, and said "Okay, I guess I don't know what yeast look like."

[Blue Eagle]

Well, it was pulsh-itized yeast.