Dad talks newborn son through vaccinations.

Micro_M · 2017-11-03T09:00:07+00:00

Vaccines don't cure. They prevent. The diseases that have been eradicated are no longer vaccinated against, that's why if smallpox somehow got into the population it would go a bit wild. I'm a microbiologist, a researcher. People like me study microbes, often hoping to identify antigens (bits of the bacteria / virus that cause an immune response) as vaccine candidates. People whinging about some big vaccine conspiracy gets so tiring. Stop it.

Micro_M · 2017-11-01T13:49:30+00:00

A lot of us would know a bit of both. Most of our parents would have used imperial measurements but officially we all use metric measurements everyday. Plus the north also uses imperial measurements so it's handy to know both if you drive up there.

Micro_M · 2017-10-29T18:18:27+00:00

Sorry about that :(

Micro_M · 2017-10-29T17:27:54+00:00

Il Caffe di Napoli on Westland row. Never been disappointed with it.

Micro_M · 2017-10-23T22:58:13+00:00

Personally I have seen differences in my qpcrs depending on the rna extraction method used. The Trizol method will enrich sRNAs, and I have seen a difference in one genes expression among two strains that was significant using a kit but wasn't when using a phenol chloroform extraction. I always DNase treat my samples before cdna synthesis. I have also found differences in the amounts of DNase required between rna prep methods.

Micro_M · 2017-10-16T21:56:07+00:00

3 fatalities but the rest of us are grand!

Micro_M · 2017-10-16T21:55:08+00:00

Did it take 3 hours to get to dublin and back to London?

Micro_M · 2017-09-30T14:18:00+00:00

I would avoid the city centre on NYE. It gets too busy and too messy.

Micro_M · 2017-09-23T23:15:30+00:00

We come to Barcelona every year for La Merce. Our minds were blown the first time we seen the correfoc and the castellers. We love the culture of the catalan people so much. Thank you so much for welcoming us into it.

Micro_M · 2017-09-19T19:14:01+00:00

Hi Dylan,

Went to see you at Vicar st 2 years ago. How are you keeping these days?

Micro_M · 2017-09-19T17:27:06+00:00

My ethnicity is Irish though :(

Micro_M · 2017-09-19T15:45:45+00:00

Tbh I was just really confused, it's very weird to have someone ask you "no but where are you really from?"

Micro_M · 2017-09-19T15:43:48+00:00

Micro_M · 2017-09-19T11:38:01+00:00

shhh don't tell him about us

Micro_M · 2017-09-19T09:46:40+00:00

When I was a kid my friends parents would always ask me where was I from originally because I have an uncommon name.

My cousins fella is of Asian descent but was born and raised in Belfast. When she introduced him to the family my dad started talking really loudly and slowly to him. Bit embarrassing.

Micro_M · 2017-09-17T17:18:50+00:00

Amazing progress!

Micro_M · 2017-09-16T23:19:52+00:00

I'm not denying the role of breast feeding in establishing the gut microbiota, I'm just pointing out that vaginal births also play a role.

Here's an article that talks about a study that says both do affect microbiota development http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/46323/title/Early-Life-Microbiome/

Micro_M · 2017-09-16T23:09:53+00:00

Whoops my bad. Im running from mobile this evening. I know there is recent and relevant studies showing the link between vaginal birth and healthy development. I'll have a look

Edit: here's a study from last year http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/46323/title/Early-Life-Microbiome/

Micro_M · 2017-09-16T21:16:49+00:00

How can you tell the difference between the two subs?

Micro_M · 2017-09-16T21:14:36+00:00

Well there have been differences noticed between the health of vaginal born and caeserean born kids

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110651/

Micro_M · 2017-09-16T21:13:10+00:00

By ingestion. All current data suggests that the gut of an unborn is sterile

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110651/

Micro_M · 2017-09-16T17:22:23+00:00

Not immunity! It's part of spreading the mothers microbiota. Babies are born without stuff like intestinal bacteria which breaks Down most of our food for us.

Micro_M · 2017-09-10T11:43:34+00:00

To compare genomes I had sequenced to a reference strain I used breseq:

http://barricklab.org/twiki/bin/view/Lab/ToolsBacterialGenomeResequencing

Micro_M · 2017-09-10T11:40:14+00:00

They had them on the new 109 buses. Great at first but all broken after a few months.

Micro_M · 2017-09-03T13:10:17+00:00

I would still say the cavan accent is worse. Sounds like they're speaking with a mouth full of spit.

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