[{"id":191,"title":"Developed microbial communities in biofilm mode: the key for reinstating degraded ecosystems","sha":"544268b97815e94eb18a26e925a7f697","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"In conventional scientific approaches, degraded ecosystems (e.g. conventional agroecosystems due to tillage and high doses of chemical inputs) are attempted to be revived mainly through nutrients, organic matter and water management. However, they do not provide a complete answer to the issue of sustainability of the ecosystems. It is now reported that sustainability of the ecosystems is an outcome of chemical signaling in the food web, in which microbes have got the central role to play (Seneviratne, 2015). Now, it is also known that developed microbial communities in biofilm mode and their exudates contribute more than their monoculture microbes in reinstating sustainability of the degraded ecosystems through increased biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.\r\n\r\nThe same concept can be applied to human body ecosystem. It is reported that the intake of antimicrobials like antibiotics is harmful to the human health. Sometimes, people use Probiotics after intake of antibiotics. They are mixtures of beneficial gut bacteria, but not in biofilm mode. Thus, in future medicines, developed microbial communities in biofilm mode and their exudates should be adopted for treating ailments. Then, they would help increase native biodiversity of gut bacteria, thus resulting in enhanced functioning of human body ecosystem for a healthy life.\r\n","created_at":"2015-07-15T14:05:09.570Z","updated_at":"2015-07-21T06:00:28.480Z","zenodo_id":37770,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20739","subject":null,"tags":["microbiology","illness","sustainability","antibiotics","drugs","crop productivity"],"vote_count":0,"view_count":1,"score":0.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":622,"title":"Want to be a Martian? Be a photoautotrophic man","sha":"384a6f535bef3e390fc784a5da396acc","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Being a Martian is not too far impossible. Now, scientists are looking forward to changing the Martian environment into a favorable state with the current advancement of the technology. Producing O2and food are predominantly seen challenges at present. All the available hypotheses in this are about changing Mars environment to get earth-like conditions. But, it would take ages to do that, maybe hundreds of years. For example, cyanobacteria had taken 2.7billion years to naturally change O2 content to a habitable level on the Earth. Here, we argue that with the available advancements of science today and perhaps years to come, the maximum, the humans would be able to do on the Mars in the future is to live inside a chamber with controlled conditions. But, no one would be able to be a real Martian who can walk freely on the Mars soil. Thinking outside the box, there is a great possibility for us to do that by getting ourselves changed a little bit to be adaptable to Martian conditions, which is much more achievable than changing a whole planet. Here, we suggest that by being photoautotrophic men, like the spotted salamander, we would be able to be real Martians.","created_at":"2019-09-20T05:02:35.743Z","updated_at":"2019-11-20T05:50:08.130Z","zenodo_id":3451528,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3451528","subject":null,"tags":["mars colonization","martian","astrobiology","microbial biotechnology","endosymbiosis"],"vote_count":3,"view_count":1,"score":3.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]