Blog do BioMol-Lab (Universidade Federal do Ceará)

- O desafio do Planejamento Estratégico no MCTIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ON24YJORF5w Realizado em 27 de Junho de 2017 - O Mundo, o Brasil e as Energias Renováveis: Eólica e Solar: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=s9Dm8Jb4VGk Realizado em 29 de Julho de 2017 - Projetos Estratégicos da Defesa e seus desafios tecnológicos: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=CD3tWQ-PXso Realizado em 10 de Agosto de 2017 Enviado por Flávio Bittencourt Postado por David Araripe

A UFC e particularmente o Biomol-Lab estão de luto. Faleceu hoje, 30/08/2017, o Professor Afrânio Gomes Fernandes, botânico reconhecido nacional e internacionalmente. Durante muitos anos o Professor Afrânio identificou e classificou plantas de diferentes biomas brasileiros, especialmente do Nordeste. Para o Biomol-Lab ele sempre foi um porto seguro para identificar as centenas de plantas que utilizamos para procurar lectinas ao longo de mais de 25 anos. Publicou 24 livros e descreveu e classificou mais de 20 novas espécies vegetais. A Serra da Meruoca (Sítio dos Fernandes) deve estar chorando esta perda. Grande cientista e acima de tudo, grande caráter. Assista um filme sobre Afrânio: http://filmesnajanela.com.br/botanica/afranio.html Postado por David Araripe

Clouds over the Amazon. Antisana/Alamy Stock Photo The Amazon rainforest is home to strange weather. One peculiarity is that rains begin 2 to 3 months before seasonal winds start to bring in moist air from the ocean. Now, researchers say they have finally figured out where this early moisture comes from: the trees themselves. The study provides concrete data for something scientists had theorized for a long time, says Michael Keller, a forest ecologist and research scientist for the U.S. Forest Service based in Pasadena, California, who was not involved with the work. The evidence the team provides, he says, is “the smoking gun.” Previous research showed early accumulation of moisture in the atmosphere over the Amazon, but scientists weren’t sure why. “All you can see is the water vapor, but you don’t know where it comes from,” says Rong Fu, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Satellite data showed that the increase coincided with a “greening” of

That sponge in your kitchen sink harbors zillions of microbes, including close relatives of the bacteria that cause pneumonia and meningitis, according to a new study. One of the microbes,  Moraxella osloensis , can cause infections in people with a weak immune system and is also known for making laundry stink, possibly explaining your sponge’s funky odor. Researchers made the discovery by sequencing the microbial DNA of 14 used kitchen sponges, they report this month in  Scientific Reports . Surprisingly, boiling or microwaving the sponges didn’t kill off these microbes Indeed,  sponges that had been regularly sanitized teemed with a higher percentage of bacteria related to pathogens  than sponges that had never been cleaned. This could be because pathogen-related bacteria are more resistant to cleaning and rapidly recolonize the areas abandoned by their susceptible brethren—similar to what happens to our gut after an antibiotic treatment, the scientists say. When the researchers