Category: Brain Candy
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Molting-Proof Ehrlichia: My Zero-Evidence, Wild-Imagination Evolution Diary (Do NOT Cite Me)
Disclaimer (a.k.a. my lawyer made me write this) 😅 Okay hi. Before we begin: this is 100% my personal, zero-evidence wild speculation…… an evolutionary point-of-view thought experiment where I try to connect real biology into a storyline… and I will absolutely make mistakes along the way. 😅 The scientific facts I mention here are real…
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Molt Buddy: A Totally Unverified Tick Theory
🕷️What if a tick-borne bacterium doesn’t just tolerate the tick… what if it actually helps the tick molt? To be super clear: this is still speculation. We’re not claiming mechanism, we’re not claiming proof, and we’re definitely not naming a specific unpublished protein like it’s already convicted in court 😂🚫. But as a concept, it’s…
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Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis… the flu that hitched a ride on a tick
I have a confession to make… before I started my PhD, I genuinely didn’t know what ehrlichiosis was😅. Like… not “I knew the basics but forgot”… I mean I had never even heard the name. If you had asked me back then, I probably would’ve guessed it was either a rare tropical fruit or a…