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Videos

Sampling surface environments in Rio de Janeiro

Rio Microbiome Project

The tropical air microbiome

Band News · TV Band · November 21, 2018

Animation made with Research Square and Nature

About our Journal Top 100 research.

Our Tiny Super Heroes

Channel News Asia documentary inspired by our research on fly microbiomes. Blowflies from 36:20.

Nanyang Technological University video press release

NTU video press release.

Channel News Asia interview

Interview about our research.

Canal Futura interview

Interview in Portuguese.

Flies Carry Even More Bacteria Than You Might Think

Newsy.

The truth about flies and germs

Australian Academy of Sciences.

News

01

The machines transforming biology

Revista Pesquisa FAPESP · Issue 315 · Interview with Carlos Fioravanti · May 17, 2022 · Portuguese

02

If love is in the air, it has company... microbes!

Núcleo Jornalismo · Polígono Newsletter · Interview with Luiza Caires · February 15, 2022 · Portuguese

03

Airborne communities

Science · English

04

Study maps the biome and what exists in the air we breathe

Estadão · Portuguese

05

Study maps the biome and what exists in the air we breathe

UOL · Portuguese

06

Air Microbiome Changes Over Day-Night Cycle

Forbes · English

07

Bacteria and fungi show a precise daily rhythm in tropical air, finds NTU

EurekAlert! · English

08

Tropical Air Microbiome Analysis Reveals Daily Cycle, Environmental Drivers

GenomeWeb · English

09

Young people learn to conduct research during the holidays

UFRJ · Portuguese

10

Flies can help map and prevent diseases

Folha de S.Paulo · Portuguese

11

The Beauty of Flies

The Straits Times · English

12

Blowflies carry a high percentage of bacteria that cause diseases in humans

Agência FAPESP · Portuguese

13

Blowflies carry a high percentage of bacteria that cause diseases in humans

Agência FAPESP · English

14

Scientists sequence DNA from a group of insects

Jornal da Unicamp · Portuguese

15

Study reveals the evolution of blowflies

Exame · Portuguese

16

Study reveals the evolution of blowflies

Agência FAPESP · Portuguese

17

Study reveals evolution of blow flies and flesh flies

Agência FAPESP · English

18

Flies can carry 351 types of bacteria — and even spread gastritis

Superinteressante · Portuguese

19

Flies can transmit more diseases than we thought

Veja · Portuguese

20

Study reveals that flies are much more disgusting than we imagined

Galileu · Portuguese

21

Flies in Brazil may transmit bacteria associated with ulcers, study says

G1 · Portuguese

22

Never eat something a fly has touched, scientists say

Sábado · Portuguese

23

Flies more germ-laden than suspected

BBC · English

24

Flies’ feet can spread bacteria

The Scientist · English

25

Study shows just how dirty houseflies are

Forbes · English

26

Flies carry more bacteria than first thought, warn scientists

The Telegraph · English

27

Bacteria spreads around cities on the back of flies

New York Post · English

28

Metagenomic sequencing finds flies may transport pathogenic bacteria

GenomeWeb · English

29

Flies carry way more bacteria than we ever imagined

IFLScience · English

30

Houseflies are more capable of spreading disease than we realized

Gizmodo · English

31

Harmful bacteria hitch a ride on houseflies

Asian Scientist · English

32

Flies could help monitor disease outbreaks as “autonomous bionic drones”

ScienceDaily · English

33

Flies carrying hundreds of species of bacteria pose a disease threat

The Sun · English

34

Houseflies carry bacteria

ScienceBeta · English

35

You should never eat food after a fly lands on it, study says

news.com.au · English

36

Hijacking houseflies to monitor disease outbreaks

New Atlas · English

37

Flies’ disease-carrying potential may be greater than thought

Phys.org · English

38

Flies could help monitor disease outbreaks as “autonomous bionic drones”

NTU News · English

39

Flies are the aircraft carriers of bacterial invasions

El País · Spanish

40

Experts say you should not eat from a plate where a fly has landed

Telegram · Croatian

41

Why you should never eat food that a fly has landed on

HuffPost · Greek

42

Flies are real walking hygiene risks

Stop Nuisibles · French

43

Flies proposed for use in preventing epidemics

Rambler · Russian

44

Flies proved even more dangerous carriers of infection than thought

Infox · Russian

45

Flies spread even more diseases than we thought

Twojezdrowie · Polish

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So many germs are carried by flies

Spektrum.de · German

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