Algae causes neurological disease: Nitroplasts discovered, and a photosynthetic hamster



Welcome to the wonderful world of symbionts. Yes I fear algae. Sorry i can only link to science articles here. Some of this is in the news

Further reading

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk1075

https://asm.org/articles/2024/june/beyond-endosymbiosis-discovering-first-nitroplast

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19929741/

https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000205080#:~:text=Blue%2Dgreen%20algae%20produce%20toxins,associated%20with%20neurotoxicity%20and%20ALS.

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pjab/100/9/100_pjab.100.035/_article

source

18 thoughts on “Algae causes neurological disease: Nitroplasts discovered, and a photosynthetic hamster”

  1. 1st stop blaming farmers!
    The real issue is people and their personal home yards.
    Since I was a kid, personal yard fertilizer treatments has grown into a billion dollar industry on it's own.
    Not only products bought at hardware stores hy homeowners, but also major companies growing across the country.
    These companies do not employ trained or educated individuals to apply these chemicals.
    One of my educational background is botany/horticulture.
    I see miss use and purpose abuse of chemicals.
    Plus, we need to eliminate wheat and gluten products from our diets!
    New research is showing gluten proteins are cause inflammation not only in our colons, but also in our brains.
    We are not ment to eat grass grains like we do.
    I wish I could write more.

    Reply
  2. I've seen SOOO many talks about alternative to Haber-Bosch (Usually citing energy consumption as the primary concern) but never this before. It's always a new catalyst flavor of the week. This is so cool, and reminds me that I should be looking outside my field more often.

    Reply

Leave a Comment