

Alex Cloherty
- 3 days ago
- 9 min
SARS-CoV-2: An army, or a single violin?
I haven’t written about SARS-CoV-2 for a while on Microbial Mondays - I’ve been busy revising a scientific manuscript on it instead - but...
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Alex Cloherty
- Jan 30
- 4 min
Sharing spit
If you’ve been keeping up with Microbial Mondays articles, you’re already pretty well versed in the fact that there are a lot of bacteria...
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Alex Cloherty
- Jan 23
- 5 min
Junk food for bacteria
Last week on Microbial Mondays, we took a look at how the microbes living in your gut are one of the reasons why eating lots of plants,...
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Alex Cloherty
- Jan 16
- 4 min
Multifunctional microbe manure
When Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” he was on to something. But one thing that Hippocrates didn’t...
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Alex Cloherty
- Jan 9
- 4 min
Ink eaters
Over Christmas, my little sister Michaela (who is now a bona fide tattoo artist and co-owner of the Cowpoke Collective) gave me some new...
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Alex Cloherty
- Dec 19, 2022
- 4 min
The season of Streptococcus
The year was 2010. I was in Scotland with the 'Coast String Fiddlers', the traditional Scottish music band that I was a member of for...
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Alex Cloherty
- Dec 5, 2022
- 5 min
On Makeup And Microbiomes
With the coming of December, I’ve been getting a lot of targeted advertising on social media for advent calendars. It’s a case of...
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Alex Cloherty
- Nov 21, 2022
- 4 min
A thief in the night: SARS-CoV-2 and immunity theft
When we catch COVID-19, is SARS-CoV-2 creeping around our bodies like a thief in the night, stealing our immunity? Is there such a thing...
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Alex Cloherty
- Nov 14, 2022
- 5 min
Putting 'immunity debt' under the microscope
Tripledemic. Strain on hospitals. Immunity debt. These terms have been swirling around the news and social media in the last weeks as...
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Alex Cloherty
- Nov 6, 2022
- 5 min
Visualizing viruses for vaccines
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has remained one of the last common childhood diseases for which we have no vaccine. Like SARS, RSV is...
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