MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'ecosystem'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:42:19 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4658103&cid=t_217868_139_f&fid=38879&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FVirologyBlog%2F%7E3%2FHSlTcUoZ53E%2F Last week we discussed the second known virophage, but we didn’t have any explanation of why such viruses might evolve. This week we have the discovery of a third virophage, hints of many more, and a hypothesis for what they might be doing in the global ecosystem. The newest virus eater is called Organic Lake virophage (OLV), for the body of water in Antarctica where it was identified. Antarctic Lakes are well suited for metagenomic analyses (nucleotide sequences produced from environmental samples) because they are dominated by microbes and typically sustain few multicellular eukaryotes. For example, a metagenomic study of Lake Limnopolar, another Antarctic lake, revealed many novel eukaryotic and ssDNA viruses.Nucleotide sequence analysis of water samples taken from Organic Lake ... virology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4658103 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:50:51 +0100 4658103 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3702930&cid=t_217868_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fannouncing-the-5-lucky-winners-of-our-reader-comment-and-win-special-giveaway%2F We’re happy to announce the five lucky winners of our Blisstree Reader Special Giveaway: Just Comment and Win! (Celebrating the revamp of our super-simple commenting system.) Congratulations to: David, MissParker, Krista, Lubaska, and Erica – You all won! Check out your sweet prizes below: 25 Packets of EBOOST – And the winner is…Krista! (She needs EBOOST for her roller derby events.) An all-natural, delicious, sugar-free alternative to all the high-calorie, chemical-filled energy drinks out there. Carol’s Daughter Love Butter – And the winner is…Lubaska! (She’s about to be buttered up.) Natural, moisturizing body butter that smells great and nourishes dry skin. EcoSystem Artist Notebook – And the winner is…David! (This notebook will inspire ... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3702930 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:32:13 +0100 3702930 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3699463&cid=t_217868_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2F185262%2F Ready, Set, Comment: This week, to celebrate our new super-easy commenting system, we’re giving away five prizes to the authors of our five favorite comments of the week. So just put your best comment faces on and have at it! Post from: BlissTree (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3699463 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:44:39 +0100 3699463 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3683589&cid=t_217868_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fblisstree-reader-special-giveaway-comment-and-win%2F We’re not sure if you’ve noticed (nudge, nudge), but we recently revamped our comments section. You don’t have to register and get a password or anything like that anymore – you can just comment. To celebrate, we’re giving away five prizes to the five best comments of this week. Yes, you read that right – five readers will win just by leaving a comment. We must be crazy! We are, but in a good way. We hate to point out the obvious, but the more awesome the comment, the better chance you have of winning. Leave your best comment below by 6 p.m. EST this Sunday, June 27, 2010, and you could win: 25 Packets of EBOOST An all-natural, delicious, sugar-free alternative to all the high-calorie, chemical-filled energy drinks out there. Carol’s Daughter Love Butter... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3683589 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:00:19 +0100 3683589 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3208533&cid=t_217868_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FuP6E-oQhJ1Q%2F Rumor has it that Apple is going to announce a tablet computer, which may well become a revolutionary new way for users to read and experience all kinds of educational content. Will it support or hinder our Cognitive  Fitness? In this article, I describe the criteria that a tablet computer—and its technological ecosystem—must meet in order for the solution to make users more knowledgeable and smarter. To achieve these lofty goals, the tablet must be much more than an “e-reader”. The offering must be an integrated learning environment with which users transform the information that they read, hear and view on the tablet into their own knowledge. The key consideration in designing such a system is that productive reading is active reading. In other words, learning involves a lot of ... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3208533 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:20:13 +0100 3208533 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2614044&cid=t_217868_136_f&fid=36070&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnetwork.nature.com%2Fpeople%2Fbasanta%2Fblog%2F2009%2F07%2F17%2Fpbs-programme-foreign-species-invading-american-ecosystems I don’t watch telly so although I imagine that this programme was meant to be watched in the comfort of your living room I only found about it on the PBS website. The programme I am referring to is called Animals behaving worse: America’s least wanted and shows some species that have (relatively) recently arrived to America and, in many cases, displaced the local populations. People have already found parallelisms between species invading new ecosystems and tumour cells metastasing to different sites so this show will appeal to those of us that see tumour cells as constituents of a tissue ecosystem. For instance, the africanised honeybee has displaced the european kind from the south of the USA as they outcompete other pollinators. Other invading species might not have clear l... Cancerevo: Evolution and cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2614044 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:01:33 +0100 2614044 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2591674&cid=t_217868_136_f&fid=36070&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnetwork.nature.com%2Fpeople%2Fbasanta%2Fblog%2F2009%2F07%2F05%2Fstem-cells-and-ecosystems TBA (Source: Cancerevo: Evolution and cancer) Cancerevo: Evolution and cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2591674 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:27:27 +0100 2591674 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2112880&cid=t_217868_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsandnsurf.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F01%2Ftwitter-essential-blog-nutrient%2F Prompted by a series of conversational musings and twitterings the concept of a ‘blogging ecosystem‘ became apparent. With the ‘blogging host‘ as the primary producer and ‘blog posts’ as distribution seeds - I went in search of the other energy sources necessary to create a fit, helathy and viable blog. Additional correlates within the blog life cycle include [...] (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2112880 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:12:36 +0100 2112880