Tagged: Nine to Noon

What makes a scream alarming? - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Jul 23, 2015 •

• alarm,
• Current Biology,
• danger,
• fear,
• Kathryn Ryan,
• modulation power spectrum,
• MPS,
• Nine to Noon,
• Radio NZ,
• rough,
• screams,
• sound

Researchers find screams occupy a special auditory space and cut straight to the parts of the human brain that process fear and danger. Read More

Hope for prominent cheekbones! The fate of faces. - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Jul 22, 2015 •

• Death Row,
• faces,
• Innocence Project,
• John Paul Wilson,
• Kathryn Ryan,
• Nicholas Rule,
• Nine to Noon,
• prison,
• Radio NZ,
• sentencing,
• Trustworthy,
• Untrustworthy

How 'untrustworthy' your face looks could determine your prison sentence. Read More

Monday Micro: Fighting superbugs with pheromones - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Jun 01, 2015 •

• bacteria,
• commensal,
• E. faecalis,
• Enterococcus,
• Kathryn Ryan,
• Michael Gilmore,
• Nine to Noon,
• pheromone,
• pheromones,
• PNAS,
• quorum sensing,
• Radio NZ,
• Superbug,
• Vibrio fischeri

Pheromones aren't just about sex. They can kill superbugs too! … Read More

Ebola in USA no reason for panic - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Oct 01, 2014 •

• Ane Bjøru Fjeldsæter,
• CDC,
• Doctors without Borders,
• Dr Berenice Dahn,
• ebola,
• Ebola Count,
• Kathryn Ryan,
• Liberia,
• Medecins sans Frontieres,
• MSF,
• Nine to Noon,
• Texas,
• Tom Skinner,
• USA

In a press conference earlier today, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that the US has diagnosed its first case of Ebola, in a man who travelled from Liberia to Dallas, Texas, on the 20th of September. The man was asymptomatic while in transit and only developed symptoms around the 24th of September. He sought medical help … Read More

NZ’s first ‘superbug’ victim? - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Nov 19, 2013 •

• antibiotic resistance,
• Antibiotic Resistance Awareness Week,
• antibiotics,
• bacteria,
• Dr Mark Jones,
• e coli,
• genes,
• Klebsiella,
• Michelle Duff,
• mobile genetic elements,
• Nine to Noon,
• NPS MEDICINEWISE,
• phage,
• stuff,
• Superbug

One of the big news stories today was about the death of Brian Pool, who according to Stuff’s Michelle Duff is “believed to be New Zealand’s first victim of an aggressive superbug, caught while he was overseas, that is resistant to every type of antibiotic.” One of the doctors who treated him, clinical microbiologist … Read More

Astrosquid! - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 27, 2013 •

• Animation,
• bacteria,
• bioluminescence,
• disease,
• Euprymna scolopes,
• Hawaii,
• Hawaiian bobtail squid,
• Kathryn Ryan,
• light,
• Luke Harris,
• microbes,
• microorganisms,
• Nine to Noon,
• quorum sensing,
• Radio New Zealand National,
• SfAM,
• Society for Applied Microbiology,
• squid,
• Vibrio,
• Vibrio fischeri,
• You Tube

What is the value of blue-skies research? This is a question often asked by politicians and the public. Why should public money be spent funding science that seems to have no obvious benefit beyond generating scientific knowledge? The simple answer is that it can be almost impossible to predict what new avenues that scientific knowledge will open up. Take … Read More