Something similar to this was recently found in the mouth "Across-kingdom partnership between bacteria and fungi can result in the two joining to form a “superorganism” ... They were stickier, more resistant to antimicrobials, and more difficult to remove from teeth than either the bacteria or the fungi alone ... What’s more, the assemblages unexpectedly sprout “limbs” that propel them to “walk” and “leap” to quickly…
Lycan is also an assemblage of fungi and cyanobacteria or algae if I'm not mistaken..
Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
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Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#52Anytime you perform a sequencing experiment you will get _some_ microbial/fungal contamination. Every time. You can even check this yourself today. Analyse any publicly available (unprocessed) whole genome sequencing data. Usually the contamination is This study hasn’t ruled out contamination as the cause for the results. Given that, it’s very likely to be BS.
Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#53I wouldn't be very surprised to learn that fungae somehow survive the immune system and their ongoing battle creates cancer.
For my own experiences... my depression is linked to sugar somehow, and green veggies seem to cause some mental bouts where I don't want to exist. There's almost always 4 days in between ingestion and symptom. (I found notes from 2016 but only made the connection around 2018 and have been testing around with different foods after that)
Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You can even check this yourself today. As much as I would love to be able to do this, I’m unsure where to start, and while I’m certain there would be a stackoverflow community for it, I wouldn’t even know what to ask. I know this sounds like a joke comment, but I feel like we live in a time where someone could post some Jupyter notebooks on the matter, and for someone to create a step by step video on YouTube to g…
Start with downloading SRA toolkit: https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools/wiki/02.-Installing-SRA-To... Find some data of interest: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra?term=(%22Homo%20sapiens%22[... (This searches SRA for human genome sequences on illumina with fastq files available) Run fasterq-dump on the SRR (listed as "Runs" in the SRA page of your choice): fasterq-dump SRR21812682 Download a microbial genome of interes…
I feel there is a "basic bootcamp for the 21C" that I missed
Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#55Anytime you perform a sequencing experiment you will get _some_ microbial/fungal contamination. Every time. You can even check this yourself today. Analyse any publicly available (unprocessed) whole genome sequencing data. Usually the contamination is This study hasn’t ruled out contamination as the cause for the results. Given that, it’s very likely to be BS.
>Anytime you perform a sequencing experiment you will get _some_ microbial/fungal contamination. Can you provide a source for this? There are a lot of cranks right now claiming that there's no such thing as a virus because we've never been able to get a non-contaminated sequence (something I've assumed was due to culturing). If this is true of everything there's no limit to what can and cannot exist per their insane…
In this case, I don't really know much about this either way, but 30 seconds of effort by just copy/pasting the exact sentence you quoted into Google found me something that seems to fit the bill, showing that contaminants in sequencing is "pervasive" and must be accounted for--such as by filtering things that look out of scope--to get reasonable results.
https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-02...
> Contaminant DNA in bacterial sequencing experiments is a major source of false genetic variability
> We found that contamination is pervasive and can introduce large biases in variant analysis. We showed that these biases can result in hundreds of false positive and negative SNPs, even for samples with slight contamination. Studies investigating complex biological traits from sequencing data can be completely biased if contamination is neglected during the bioinformatic analysis, and we demonstrate that removing contaminant reads with a taxonomic classifier permits more accurate variant calling.
Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Anytime you perform a sequencing experiment you will get _some_ microbial/fungal contamination. Can you provide a source for this? There are a lot of cranks right now claiming that there's no such thing as a virus because we've never been able to get a non-contaminated sequence (something I've assumed was due to culturing). If this is true of everything there's no limit to what can and cannot exist per their insane…
Did you even try to look before throwing FUD? Into is really sketchy to me when people call for citations without noting at least in passing that they either found the opposite or tried something reasonable and failed to find something. In this case, I don't really know much about this either way, but 30 seconds of effort by just copy/pasting the exact sentence you quoted into Google found me something that seems to…
Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#57My personal non scientific thought on tumours (non cancerous fatty tumours) Is that they are your bodies away of wrapping up something bad that it can't otherwise deal with. In a protective layer to contain. Similar to how a clams makes a pearl layer by layer around a foreign particle.
Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you even try to look before throwing FUD? Into is really sketchy to me when people call for citations without noting at least in passing that they either found the opposite or tried something reasonable and failed to find something. In this case, I don't really know much about this either way, but 30 seconds of effort by just copy/pasting the exact sentence you quoted into Google found me something that seems to…
You are using the term FUD incorrectly.
Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Anytime you perform a sequencing experiment you will get _some_ microbial/fungal contamination. Can you provide a source for this? There are a lot of cranks right now claiming that there's no such thing as a virus because we've never been able to get a non-contaminated sequence (something I've assumed was due to culturing). If this is true of everything there's no limit to what can and cannot exist per their insane…
Did you even try to look before throwing FUD? Into is really sketchy to me when people call for citations without noting at least in passing that they either found the opposite or tried something reasonable and failed to find something. In this case, I don't really know much about this either way, but 30 seconds of effort by just copy/pasting the exact sentence you quoted into Google found me something that seems to…
Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lichen are. (Lycan are werewolves I think.)
Werewolves might ALSO be an assemblage of fungi and cyanobacteria or algae. You don't know. I believe canonically, Orcs are, so there's precedence.