Comments on: TWiV 61: Original antigenic sin

By: JLM

JLM — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:33:32 +0000

Vincent, thank you so much for answering my question about OAS. Looking forward to next week obviously!

Cheers,

J

By: JLM

JLM — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:33:32 +0000

Vincent, thank you so much for answering my question about OAS. Looking forward to next week obviously!

Cheers,

J

By: anon

anon — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:34:51 +0000

Re “vinegar flies”: the story I remember is that there is a bacterium colonising drosophilia's legs which converts ethanol to ethanoic acid (substitute your favourite non-IUPAC terminology), itself remarkable because it produces of the form of cellulose it produces in order to remain on the surface (er, the bacterium produces cellulose, that is).

So when brewing beer, you have to look out for drosophilia because it might spoil the ethanol. I'd imagine that, conversely, drosophilia traditionally were useful in making vinegar from wine.

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