21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
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linkedin post 2020-01-17 03:51:59

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SLIME MOLDS. "Although P. polycephalum often acts like a colony of cooperative individuals foraging together, it in fact spends most of its life as a single cell containing millions of nuclei, small sacs of DNA, enzymes and proteins. This one cell is a master shape-shifter. P. polycephalum takes on different appearances depending on where and how it is growing." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brainless-slime-molds/ View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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"MICROORGANISMS ALSO CHATTER, and our ability to understand the routes, mechanisms, and purposes of these communications may have profound effects on human health, industry, agriculture, and the environment. Bacteria communicate and coordinate their activities through chemical signals that either diffuse through the extracellular environment or remain cell associated." https://lnkd.in/degbvNw View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2020-01-16 08:27:22

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PSYCHOBIOTICS. "While the effects of spore-forming bacteria on mood and behaviour remain unexamined, concurrent studies revealed antidepressant properties of specific gut microbes. Whether spore-forming bacteria belong in the emerging class of “psychobiotics” is yet to be determined." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cmi.12585/full View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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BACTERIA AND MENTAL HEALTH. "The vast majority GI tryptophan is not utilized for serotonin production, but rather metabolized via the kynurenine pathway. Alteration of kynurenine:tryptophan ratios has been linked with depression and anxiety. The gut microbiota may modulate this ratio directly." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cmi.12585/full View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-01-18 09:14:18

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THE LADDER OF BEING. “Intelligence has evolved many times independently among vertebrates. Primates, elephants and cetaceans are assumed to be more intelligent than ‘lower’ mammals, the great apes and humans more than monkeys, and humans more than the great apes.” https://lnkd.in/drQAATA View in LinkedIn
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