Nurturing the microbiome field.
Nurturing the microbiome field.
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培育微生物组领域。
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10.1126/science.350.6264.1044
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2015
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Schloss,Patrick
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我在耶鲁大学设备齐全的实验室里，垃圾桶里堆满了用过的手套、试管和塑料小费盒。当我把自己的手套叠好放进抽屉时，我想到了我在约旦的家的经历给了我一个不同于许多实验室伙伴的视角。约旦不断增长的人口正在经历快速的现代化，产生了大量的固体废物，市政当局负担不起现代固体废物收集、回收或成功的垃圾填埋管理。固体废物管理不善导致公共卫生风险。与此同时，采购实验室消耗品和化学品是复杂的可怕的官僚主义采购和管理的赠款（1）。在约旦，我们会为了一盒手套而打架。我梦想着把所有的废物带回家，到约旦重新利用，但我不可能把它们都装进我的行李里。尽管如此，我还是不忍心扔掉我的材料。有一天，当我盯着一堆皱巴巴的手套时，我突然想到，每一只手套看起来都像一个细胞。它们合在一起就可以形成一个干细胞集落的图像。受创造一件可回收的科学艺术品的启发，我开始了一项活动，在整个实验室收集用过的手套、小费盒和试管（当然是那些没有生物危害的东西）。我实验室的其他成员也开始收集。在我离开耶鲁回约旦的前一天晚上，我和女儿花了一整晚的时间创作了我们的杰作，描绘了一个小鼠胚胎成纤维细胞的干细胞集落。我们在离开前把它作为礼物送给了我的实验室小组。每个人都喜欢它！一位实验室成员甚至加了一只紫色手套来代表污染殖民地的支原体。一旦我回到我的国家，我找到了一种方法来继续我的艺术回收努力。当我教本科生细胞生物学时，我要求他们用回收材料创作一件代表科学概念的艺术品。如果我们都接受一个科学家的垃圾可以成为另一个科学家的财富的想法，也许我们可以帮助缓解约旦日益严重的固体废物问题。
The trash can in my well-equipped Yale laboratory was overflowing with used gloves, tubes, and plastic tip boxes. As I neatly folded my own gloves and placed them in my drawer, I thought about how my experiences in my home of Jordan gave me a different perspective than that of many of my lab mates. Jordan’s growing population, undergoing rapid modernization, generates an overwhelming volume of solid waste, and municipalities cannot afford modern solid waste collection, recycling, or successful landfill management. Solid waste mismanagement leads to public health risks. Meanwhile, purchasing lab consumables and chemicals is complicated by terrible bureaucracy in procurement and management of grants (1). In Jordan, we would fight over a box of gloves. I dreamed about taking all the waste home to Jordan to reuse, but I couldn’t possibly fit it all in my luggage. Still, I couldn’t bear to throw my materials away. One day, while staring at a pile of crinkled gloves, an idea occurred to me. Each glove looked like a cell. Together, they could form a picture of a stem cell colony. Inspired to create a piece of recycled science art, I started a campaign to collect used gloves, tip boxes, and tubes (those that were not a biohazard, of course) all across the lab. The other members of my lab started collecting as well. The night before I left Yale to return to Jordan, my daughter and I spent all night creating our masterpiece, depicting a stem cell colony of mouse embryonic fibroblasts. We presented it to my lab group as a gift before leaving. Everyone loved it! One lab member even added a purple glove to represent a mycoplasma contaminating the colony.Once I returned to my country, I found a way to continue my artistic recycling efforts. When I teach cell biology to undergraduate students, I require them to create a piece of art from recycled material that represents a scientific concept. Perhaps we can help alleviate the growing solid waste problems in Jordan if we all embrace the idea that one scientist’s trash can be another scientist’s treasure.