Jul 15, 2020

Meet the Researcher: Lauren Ramilo

  Meet the researcher, Lauren Ramilo. She’s been spending this summer updating the Alchemy Blog and Delftia Hub, creating graphics, and learning about SciComm! Check out the social media tag she’s created, #DrawDelftia. Read some of her articles, Ocean Gold part one and two, and Call for Annotators!     Lauren is a casual painter from…

Jul 2, 2020

Call for Annotators

A strange species of bacteria, Delftia acidovorans, has evolved the unique ability to collect gold. Harnessing this ability could have world-changing applications in the gold industry, ecology, medicine, and elsewhere. Annotating scientific literature can help us add to the existing collection of knowledge, and work towards building a literature review to collect Delftia knowledge and identify areas…

Jun 23, 2020

The demand for gold is growing, do we have a solution?

  The National Ocean Service reports that the oceans contain 20 million tons of gold. Ever since the British chemist discovered its presence in seawater, the unconquerable riches have taunted many. In the early to mid 20th century, several people attempted to become massively rich though seawater gold. Read about a fraudulent pastor/diver duo, a…

Jun 7, 2020

There’s gold in the ocean, but how do we get it?

The National Ocean Service reports that the ocean contains 20 million tons of gold. But there are no efficient methods to extract it. A few seem to disagree. A pastor and a diver stole thousands from investors. A Nobel prize winner misses a decimal point. What else could go wrong?   In 1872, British chemist…

Jun 4, 2020

Primers for SPH-1 and Cs1-4

Developed by Daiza Norman

Oct 26, 2015

Protocol for Staining MIC assays for Viability