Rund 100 verschiedene Wirbellosenarten leben in jedem durchschnittlichen Haushalt – das zeigte eine Studie in "Scientific Reports". Zu den bekanntesten und unbeliebtesten dieser Mitbewohner gehören sicherlich die Stuben- und Schmeißfliegen. Sie surren nicht nur lästig um das Essen, sondern gelten auch als Überträger allerlei Krankheitserreger. Dass sie diese Aufgabe sogar noch besser erledigen als [...]

O tym, że muchy "roznoszą zarazki" słyszymy niemal od dziecka. Okazuje się, jednak, że do tej pory mimo wszystko... nie docenialiśmy związanych z tym zagrożeń. Wyniki najnowszych badań, przeprowadzonych przez naukowców z Eberly College of Science przy Pennsylvania State University wskazują, że dokuczliwe owady przenoszą wiecej bakterii, niż myśleliśmy. Na łamach [...]

Микробиологи впервые провели тотальную перепись бактерий, которых разносят на своих телах мухи. Оказалось, что на мухах путешествуют десятки разновидностей опасных микробов, включая тех, что вызывают язву желудка.Об этом говорится в статье ученых из Бразилии, США и Сингапура, опубликованной в журнале Scientific Reports.Еще с советских времен многие помнят плакаты с грозной надписью «муха - [...]

Ученые исследовали микробиомы комнатных мух и обнаружили большое разнообразие патогенных микроорганизмов. Известно, что мухи способны переносить микроорганизмы-возбудители многих заболеваний, включая холеру, брюшной тиф и некоторые болезни глаз. Международная группа ученых исследовала микробиомы 116 комнатных и мясных мух и пришла к выводу: эти насекомые могут оказаться переносчиками гораздо большего количества болезней, чем было принято считать. Мухи не могут питаться твердой пищей, они растворяют ее с помощью слюны. Насекомых [...]

Les mouches sont connues pour répandre des maladies et détériorer les activités alimentaires, de santé et pharmaceutiques. Dans ces secteurs d’activité, les pratiques d’hygiène standards, les barrières physiques et les destructeurs d’insectes volants sont des composants obligatoires afin d’assurer une bonne hygiène des lieux. Ces derniers empêchent les mouches de contaminer la nourriture par laquelle elles [...]

Όταν βλέπετε την μανούλα σας να γίνεται υστερική με τις μύγες που βλέπει στην κουζίνα, να ξέρετε, δεν έχει άδικο.Τώρα έχει και την επιστήμη να την υποστηρίξει στην μανία της να προστατεύσει το φαγητό της οικογένειας από αυτά τα (ας το παραδεχτουμε) εκνευριστικά πετούμενα.Νέα έρευνα από τρία πανεπιστήμια (Pennsylvania State University, [...]

Nikada ne biste smjeli jesti s tanjura na koji je sletjela muha. Oni koji jedu s tanjura na kojem je bila muha, riskiraju različite opasne bolesti. Prema najnovijoj studiji, muhe, na svojim nogama, nose puno više bolesti nego se prije mislilo.Na nogama i krilima muha nalaze se stotine različitih vrsta bakterija [...]

La naturaleza está llena de seres llenos de ambición, pequeños y grandes conquistadores que quieren ampliar sus dominios y los de su especie. Los humanos podemos parecer un grupo con éxito, pero nada si se nos compara con las bacterias. Estos microorganismos tienen una capacidad de adaptación sorprendente y, aunque no [...]

An international research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have proposed that swarms of flies can be used to help monitor disease outbreaks. This follows their research that shows how whole communities of bacteria – known as a microbiome – can “hitch a ride” on common carrion flies and can [...]

Flies can be more than pesky picnic crashers, they may be potent pathogen carriers, too, according to an international team of researchers.In a study of the microbiomes of 116 houseflies and blowflies from three different continents, researchers found, in some cases, these flies carried hundreds of different species of bacteria, many [...]

In news bound to make the commongermophobe even more paranoid about that fly buzzing around thepicnic table, a team of researchers has found that house flies andblow flies can spread a whole host of bacteria that was previously unsuspected to hitch a ride on the insects. The recently published study also [...]

SEEING a fly land on the food you have been tucking into isn’t an uncommon occurrence and most of us just shoo the fly away and continue eating.After all, it’s not like you are going to throw the whole meal away just because of one little fly right?Well, according to a [...]

Houseflies carry as many as several hundred different species of bacteria, some of which may be harmful to humans, new research shows. The international research team behind the study, led by Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, also proposed that swarms of flies can be used to help monitor disease outbreaks.The researchers sequenced [...]

The international study, launched at Penn State Eberly College of Science in the United States, examined microbiomes on 116 houseflies and blowflies from three different continents.The results, published in the journal Scientific Reports, found that flies contribute to the rapid spread of germs during an outbreak of disease among people – [...]

An international research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have proposed that swarms of flies can be used to help monitor disease outbreaks. This follows their research that shows how whole communities of bacteria -- known as a microbiome -- can "hitch a ride" on common carrion flies [...]

AsianScientist (Nov. 28, 2017) – An international research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have proposed that swarms of flies can be used to help monitor disease outbreaks. They published their findings in Scientific Reports.Flies are known to be carriers of disease, responsible for the spread of harmful [...]

It’s never a nice feeling to watch a fly land on your next bite of food, but as new research shows, you may be justified in wanting to toss that delicious morsel in the garbage.New research published in Scientific Reports shows that two common flies—houseflies and blowflies—are capable of carrying hundreds of different bacteria—a good [...]

We all know that with their penchant to feast on rotting flesh and partiality for poop, flies are pretty unhygienic creatures. It now seems that we have been underestimating just how gross these insects are, if that is even possible.A new study published last week in Scientific Reports has found that both houseflies and [...]

Flies really do spread germs, a new study confirmed.The insects are not only annoying by trying to land on your meal or crawling over kitchen countertops, they also carry more diseases than previously thought.And their legs and their wings are teeming with pathogens that hitch a ride after the flies land [...]

Most picnickers would brush away flies from food, thinking nothing of bugs briefly landing on their sandwiches.But a new study suggests the insects carry far more dangerous bacteria than previously thought, meaning sandwiches are best avoided if they have been contaminated by flies.Researchers at Penn State Eberly College of Science in the United [...]

Do you want flies with your food? The answer should almost always be no, and a study published in Scientific Reports gives more reasons why such a side dish is not good.News flash. Flies are dirty. Not in a moral or political way. But in a bacteria- and other pathogen-carrying way. For the study, a [...]

Researchers have undertaken a massive sequencing effort to analyze the whole genomes of 116 houseflies (Musca domestica) and blowflies (Chrysomya megacephala)—plus all their resident microbes. These metagenomes, along with laboratory experiments, point to flies’ ability to pick up bacteria on their legs and deposit their microbial passengers elsewhere, revealing the potential [...]

Scientists have discovered that flies carry more diseases than suspected.The house fly and the blowfly together harbour more than 600 different bacteria, according to a DNA analysis.Many are linked with human infections, including stomach bugs, blood poisoning and pneumonia.Flies can spread bacteria from place-to-place on their legs, feet and wings, experiments [...]

Um novo estudo conduzido por investigadores do Brasil, Singapura e Estados Unidos revelou que nunca se deve comer nada que tenha sido tocado por uma mosca. Porquê? As bactérias que estes insectos albergam são transferidas para a comida.Publicado na Scientific Reports, o estudo analisou os microbiomas – microrganismos que se situam [...]

Moscas podem carregar centenas de diferentes espécies de bactérias prejudiciais aos seres humanos, diz estudo publicado no “Scientific Reports” nesta sexta-feira (24). Pesquisadores analisaram 116 moscas de três diferentes continentes – algumas delas foram coletadas no Brasil.Nessas amostras do país, pesquisadores encontraram o patógeno Helicobacter pylori, bactéria presente em pacientes de úlcera [...]

Elas entram no lixo, passam por esgotos e cadáveres, vomitam em tudo, estão cobertas de microorganismos do cocô, e, ao fim, pousam na sua comida. As moscas são super nojentas, mas a situação pode ser pior do que pensávamos.De acordo com novas pesquisas, o corpinho desses insetos pode estar carregando toda espécie de agentes patogênicos, [...]

Se você acha que moscas são animais pouco higiênicos, a ciência acaba de encontrar evidências de que você tem toda a razão. Um estudo publicado na última semana no periódico Scientific Reports e você acha que sugere que os pequenos insetinhos podem carregar centenas de bactérias causadoras de doenças.“Acreditamos que isso pode [...]

Basta uma única mosquinha sobrevoando a mesa para ligar o sinal de alerta: quem está por perto corre para espantar o inseto, na tentativa de evitar seu contato com a comida a todo custo. Quando já é tarde demais, o jeito é reparar o estrago. Os mais precavidos tratam de descartar [...]

By Karina Toledo  |  Agência FAPESP – At the same time as the dinosaurs began to disappear – during the transition from the Cretaceous to the Paleocene over 60 million years ago – a group of insects called Schizophora began to flourish.The clade Schizophora, which belongs to the Brachycera suborder of Diptera (the order of true flies), [...]

Karina Toledo  |  Agência FAPESP – Na mesma época em que os dinossauros começaram a desaparecer – durante a transição do período Cretáceo para o Paleoceno, há mais de 60 milhões de anos –, um grupo de insetos conhecido como Schizophora passou a florescer.Pertencente à ordem Diptera e à subordem das moscas Brachycera, a radiação adaptativa Schizophora (termo usado [...]

Na mesma época em que os dinossauros começaram a desaparecer – durante a transição do período Cretáceo para o Paleoceno, há mais de 60 milhões de anos –, um grupo de insetos conhecido como Schizophora passou a florescer.Pertencente à ordem Diptera e à subordem das moscas Brachycera, a radiação adaptativa Schizophora (termo usado para se referir a uma [...]

No ano 2000, o grupo liderado pela professora da Unicamp Ana Maria Lima de Azeredo Espin foi o primeiro no país a sequenciar o DNA mitocondrial (encontrado no interior da mitocôndria) de uma espécie de inseto: a mosca-da-bicheira (Cochliomyia hominivorax), considerada uma das mais nocivas pragas da pecuária na América do Sul. Agora, passados [...]

Agência FAPESP – Nearly 30% of the microorganisms found in blowflies are capable of causing diseases in humans says a study carried out by researchers at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Pennsylvania State University in the United States and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.Among the bacteria found in the bodies of the insects [...]

Agência FAPESP – Cerca de 30% dos microrganismos encontrados em moscas varejeiras são capazes de causar doenças em seres humanos, revelou um estudo feito por pesquisadores da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), da PennState University, dos Estados Unidos, e da Nanyang Technological University, de Cingapura.Entre as bactérias encontradas nos corpos dos insetos [...]

Na tarde da última sexta-feira (19/7), o pátio do Centro de Ciências da Saúde (CCS) virou palco de aprendizado e troca de experiências. De férias de suas agendas escolares, cerca de 100 estudantes, vindos de diversas regiões do país e interessados em expor o que aprenderam sobre Paleontologia, Biologia, Astronomia e [...]

Scientists from the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found that the air in the tropics is teeming with a rich and diverse range of at least 725 different microorganisms.The NTU scientists used a new sampling and DNA sequencing protocol of [...]

Organisms across the tree of life, from plankton to humans, follow day-night cycles. New research shows that the airborne microbiome cycles through day-night cycles as well.Researchers in Brazil and Singapore captured the microbes present in the air of a tropical environment using air samplers located at Nanyang Technical University. Considering the popularity of [...]

O que existe no ar que respiramos? A verdade é que há até bem pouco tempo, ninguém sabia. Embora os microorganismos presentes no solo e nos oceanos estejam bem mapeados, o bioma do ar nunca tinha sido estudado em larga escala. Agora, pela primeira vez, cientistas da Universidade Federal do Rio [...]

Airborne transport of microorganisms is assumed to occur over vast global scales, but we know little about it. Gusareva et al. undertook a year-long metagenomic study of atmospheric organisms above Singapore. Daily patterns were seen in more than 700 taxa, dominated by eukaryotes. At night, spores of basidiomycete fungi formed the greatest airborne [...]

Pesquisadores processam montanha de dados de mais de 300 espécies de tartarugas viventes e extintas para identificar onde e quando evoluíram os ancestrais comuns das tartarugas modernas A história evolutiva é uma paixão antiga. Desde criança eu sempre adorei conhecer a origem dos diversos grupos de animais e plantas, [...]

Sequenciadores de DNA, gravadores, drones e outros aparelhos de uso crescente permitem imensos ganhos de tempo e impõem uma reviravolta metodológica. Oar que nos cerca não é um espaço inerte, apenas com oxigênio e nitrogênio, vapor-d’água, poeira e poluição. É um ambiente vivo, no qual continuamente nascem, se reproduzem [...]

Há diversos microrganismos habitando a atmosfera do nosso planeta, e não só aqui embaixo, pertinho de nós. O microbioma do ar é composto principalmente de bactérias e fungos que ficam suspensos quando são expelidos da superfície. Só uma pequena parte desse pessoal volta aqui para baixo em gotículas de chuva ou pegando [...]