Buruli, Beaches, and Flesh Eating Bacteria
This week, Ash tells us about a mysterious flesh-eating bacteria that’s appeared near Melbourne, and the disease it causes – Buruli ulcer. In our SNPit, we talk about spider silk, and how it could be the material of the future.
Read more about Buruli Ulcer at the links below:
- Buruli ulcer: Review of a Neglected Skin Mycobacterial Disease
- WHO: Buruli ulcer Factsheet
- Australia has a Flesh-Eating Bacteria Problem
Interested in reading more about spider silk? Check out these links!
- Silk Feeding as an Alternative Foraging Tactic in a Kleptoparasitic Spider Under Seasonally Changing Environments
- Spider Silk Violin Strings
- 1 Million Spiders Make Rare Golden Cloth
- Artificial Spider Silk: Why You Should Care About it
- A Marine Photosynthetic Microbial Cell Factory as a Platform for Spider Silk Production
Music:
AhDah Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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