

Animal models: Deciphering the puzzle of ASD piece by piece
Picture trying to solve a puzzle depicting a mesmerizing scene... Without a guide or reference. That is the challenge that scientists face.
Selma Weerdenburg
Feb 26, 20248 min read
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Microbiota Mayhem: Exploring the links between antibiotics, gut health and autism
In the past, researchers thought ASD was all in your DNA. But we've learned a lot more about the gut-brain connection since then...
Selma Weerdenburg
Feb 19, 20248 min read
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The wonders of the collaboration between your microbiota and your brain
There are three main routes that bacteria living in the city of your gut can use to send messages to the brain: (1) via the blood, (2) via t
Selma Weerdenburg
Feb 12, 20248 min read
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How to understand the universe: A story about the scientific method
These days I’m at the very end of my PhD, and I’ve been struggling to maintain my once seemingly-unshakable love for science. So, I...
Alex Cloherty
May 1, 20236 min read
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Sinking our teeth into Cordyceps
I get pretty easily hooked by a good television series, and for me, HBO's 'The Last of Us' was no different. But what was special about...
Alex Cloherty
Mar 13, 20235 min read
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How diversity can be powerful: Mycobacterium tuberculosis and antibiotic resistance
The other day I visited my grandparents, and I told them about this mini-series I’m writing about tuberculosis (TB). We got into a...
Merel Sijbranda
Feb 27, 20238 min read
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The fortress of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Last November, I was in beautiful, sunny Lisbon, and as my parents and I looked back at the pictures we took there, something caught my...
Merel Sijbranda
Feb 20, 20237 min read
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Playing hide and seek
When strolling through the streets of Utrecht, the town in the Netherlands that I live in, you sometimes hear people using ‘Tering’ as a...
Merel Sijbranda
Feb 13, 20236 min read
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SARS-CoV-2: An army, or a single violin?
I haven’t written about SARS-CoV-2 for a while on Microbial Mondays - I’ve been busy revising a scientific manuscript on it instead - but...
Alex Cloherty
Feb 5, 20239 min read
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Sharing spit
If you’ve been keeping up with Microbial Mondays articles, you’re already pretty well versed in the fact that there are a lot of bacteria...
Alex Cloherty
Jan 30, 20234 min read
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