#micrococcus luteus

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Riboflavin

“Micrococcus luteus (ATCC strain number 49442) develops a yellow color due to production of riboflavin while growing on pyridine but not when grown on other substrates, such as succinic acid.” - via Wikimedia Commons

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Micrococcus luteus

“Micrococcus luteus (Fleming strain) colonies on LB plate.” - via Wikimedia Commons

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Is Your Mobile Phone Making You Sick?

Is Your Mobile Phone Making You Sick?

Can’t be separated from your mobile phone?

Then listen up:

If you don’t want to get sick, start cleaning your phone. Tests show that mobile phones are an environmental health nightmare. When TV station KFOX in El Paso, TX recently asked microbiologists to test some mobile phones, the results were, shall we say, sickening.

The average mobile phone surface is a hotbed of bacteria, yeast and mold.…

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Da li ste znali: Bakterije sa tastature računara

Bakterije su jednoćelijski organizmi koji nisu vidljivi golim okom. Najstariji su, nastali pre oko 3,4 milijarde godina i najbrojniji organizmi na našoj planeti. Neki su jako korisni za čoveka, a neki pak izazivaju velike probleme u funkcionisanju našeg organizma i izazivaju brojne bolesti.                       Iako toga ... http://dlvr.it/6dPpfL

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Gotta admit, working with bacteria was pretty fun today. Especially seeing as me and Tamara just kept laughing. :P

Near enough inhaled the bloody bacteria, then we would have been in trouble :P

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Photoaday126: Micrococcus Luteus.  This is gram positive cocci.  This slide  actually reads as both gram positive and a false gram negative.  Hence what would have been only purple actually has a pink color as well.