Artificial Silk, Real Volcanoes (Season 3: Episode 37)

Get ready for deep sea microbes desperately seeking iron, the identity of interesting invertons, rare earth elements from volcanos, spinning artificial spider silk, new entries to the Big Book of R, and a grant on translational research against fungal pathogens. Science On. References: Microbial iron limitation in the ocean’s twilight zone Intragenic DNA inversions expand bacterial coding capacity Soil and water pollution and cardiovascular disease Silicate and iron phosphate melt immiscibility promotes REE enrichment Overexpressed Artificial Spidroin Based Microneedle Spinneret for 3D Air Spinning of Hybrid Spider Silk Outbreak-associated Salmonella Baildon found in wastewater demonstrates how sewage monitoring can supplement traditional disease surveillance 5 Books added to Big Book of R Mastering Data Transformation in R with pivot_longer and pivot_wider NIAID: Discovery and Development of Novel Therapeutics for Select Fungal Pathogens R Packages: EFAfactors: Determining the Number of Factors in Exploratory Factor Analysis