In lavorazione il nuovo film di Alien, Star Trek Discovery annuncia la stagione finale, nuove rivelazioni sui programmi della DC e di Star Wars e il trailer di una nuova serie Apple nella settimana di Fantascienza.com
Massì, dai: favola più, favola meno, anche il salto evolutivo tra batterio ed enzima ci sta.
Certo, persino wiki la racconta diversamente - chissà se quelli di Nature un occhio lo hanno gettato (che poi, adesso vado a cercarlo, l’articolo di Nature)
It was first reported in November 1884 by Lustgarten, who found a bacillus with the staining appearance of tubercle bacilli in syphilitic chancres. Subsequent to this, Alvarez and Tavel found organisms similar to that described by Lustgarten also in normal genital secretions (smegma). This organism was later named M. smegmatis.
Some species of the genus Mycobacterium have recently been renamed to Mycolicibacterium, so that M. smegmatis is now Mycolicibacterium smegmatis.
Plaques from a virus isolated from a compost. The bacterium is M. smegmatis
Virulence M. smegmatis is generally considered a non-pathogenic microorganism; however, in some very rare cases, it may cause disease*.
Use in research
Mycobacterium smegmatis is useful for the research analysis of other Mycobacteria species in laboratory experiments. M. smegmatis is commonly used in work on the Mycobacterium genus due to it being a “fast grower” and non-pathogenic. M. smegmatis is a simple model that is easy to work with, i.e., with a fast doubling time and only requires a biosafety level 1 laboratory. The time and heavy infrastructure needed to work with pathogenic species prompted researchers to use M. smegmatis as a model for mycobacterial species
E vogliamo parlare dell’attesa della fusione, che ci salverà tutti? O della terraformazione di altri pianeti? Mica Marte, andiamo un po’ più in là, dai: io scommetto sulle zone dalle parti di Andromeda, perché mi piace il nome.