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05/10/2015

Vivian Monteban about our recent innovation in Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (in Dutch) http://t.co/G5uDLFW8mc
Credits for this project: http://lumibyte.eu/bacteriology-of-the-21st-century/

Jim Stolze is tijdens Nano City 2015 op een apparaat gestuit waarmee je heel snel kunt checken welk antibioticum je nodig hebt, zoals bij een blaasontsteking. Jim voor RTL Z Toekomstmakers in gesprek met Vivan Monteban van LumiByte.

04/10/2015

Meet Us at , 5 & 6/10 https://youtu.be/FPxH0HYCB3c Bacteriology for the 21st century

CCM, KIT, MicroDish and LumiByte, nanonext project demonstration. Bacteriology for the 21st century.

24/03/2015

World Tuberculosis Day, falling on March 24 each year, is designed to build public awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and efforts to eliminate the disease. In 2012, 8.6 million people fell ill with TB, and 1.3 million died from the disease, mostly in the Third World.[1]

20/12/2014

New post (Season's Greetings) has been published on LumiByte

Season’s Greetings
Wishing you all the best over the festive season. Thank you for supporting us!
Seasons Greetings from the staff at LumiByte
We hope you and all your coworkers, family, and friends have a lovely holiday season filled with joy and meaning. Best wishes for a healthy, peaceful and prosperous New Year !

19/11/2014

New post (How to line dance, with bacteria!) has been published on LumiByte

How to line dance, with bacteria!
We have millions of these pets, why not teach them some tricks? And in a way this is the scientist from from Mesa, the University of Twente in cooperation with the Korean Institute of Science and Technology, have done.
By chaning the direction of a superimposed magnetic field, magnetostatic bacteria in a microfluidics chip can change direction. This allows the scientists to literally make the macteria dance to music.
The video below was recorded at KIST Europe shows playfully how it was accomplished. The movie was the winning submission of the microTAS video aword competition in Texas earlier this year.
Future applications
Controlling bacteria (or particles) from the outside are of interest for tergetted delivery (eg. in medicine). For now the technology can be used to study microbial behaviour.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uUL4ooM6KI

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30/09/2014

New post (World's Toughest Bacterium) has been published on LumiByte

World’s Toughest Bacterium
Source: national geographic 2003
What are “extreme environmental conditions”? Most people would consider the harsh environment on Antarctica rather extreme or perhaps the first thing that come to mind are the chilly nights and hot days in the Sahara. But as a microbiologist you know better. Microbes are everywhere and will find a way to survive even the most extreme conditions.
Some bacteria thrive in battery acid, some grow in lakes so salty that you could use the water for brining. Others grow in water so hot, that it would be boiling if it weren’t for the extreme high pressure at the ocean floor. Yet another is able to use pure electricity as a food source when nothing else is around. These extremophiles love to be outcasts and tend to be difficult to culture in standard laboratory (optimal) conditions.
But there is 1 organism that is ranked the tough ...

23/09/2014

New post (Do Bacteria Age?) has been published on LumiByte

Do Bacteria Aage? (Micro)biologists have long believed bacteria remain young as long as they can multiply. Bacteria simply don't age, or do they?

16/09/2014

Collection of Infographs on the Ebola Virus

Collection of Infographics on the Ebola Virus

11/09/2014

Fruit bats and Ebola, but why?

Bats have a bad reputation, carrying a number of dangerous pathogens (rabies, Hendra, Marburg, Nipah and indeed also Ebola). But why bats?

08/09/2014

(Key Facts: Ebola Virus)

Ebola Virus Disease is extremely infectious, but considered moderately contagious. The Key Facts on Ebola Virus.

05/09/2014