Cultivating salt-loving microbes on Mars

Cultivating Yet-to-be Cultivated Microbes: The Challenge Continues

When looking into the current situation of microbial ecology, you would realize that the (meta) omics-driven studies associated with next generation sequencing technologies make the headlines in related journals. Currently, isolation and characterization of as-yet-uncultured, but functionally important microorganisms is, at least to a certain extent, being replaced by omics-driven approach with...

“Boiling Water Is Not Too Hot for Us!”—Preferred Living Spaces of Heat-Loving Microbes

Do you like to stay at the beach on a hot summer day? Sun bathing, chilling, and playing beach games? If it gets too hot, you can quickly cool off in the lukewarm ocean. Can you believe that there are living organisms on our planet that would still freeze on the hottest day of the year? These tiny creatures are called heat-loving microbes, and they do not grow at temperatures lower than 50°C, b...

Keys to Cultivating Uncultured Microbes: Elaborate Enrichment Strategies and Resuscitation of Dormant Cells

Over the last few years, extensive investigations have been performed in an attempt to isolate yet-to-be cultivated microorganisms that are of ecological importance (1, 4, 12, 19). The enrichment, isolation, characterization, and genome sequencing of these organisms are classical, but robust processes that explicitly unveil their entity (5, 6, 9). However, difficulties are associated with the d...

Research Highlight Keys to Cultivating Uncultured Microbes: Elaborate Enrichment Strategies and Resuscitation of Dormant Cells

The Role of Mindfulness and Loving-Kindness Meditation in Cultivating Self-Compassion and Other-Focused Concern in Health Care Professionals

Therapists and other health professionals might benefit from interventions that increase their self-compassion and other-focused concern since these may strengthen their relationships with clients, reduce the chances of empathetic distress fatigue and burnout and increase their well-being. This article aimed to review the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) and loving-kindne...