Posts Tagged ‘KB’

People Are Getting Worried About Household Mold. Should You Be?

February 14, 2026

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According to Google Trend data, searches for “household mold” and related terms have grown in popularity over the last five years; examples include “mold toxicity symptoms,” up 170 percent, and “professional black mold removal,” up 250 percent.

You can buy a mold test kit at a store, but the Centers for Disease Control warns that a reliable sample is expensive, and there are no set standards for acceptable quantities of different types of mold in the home.

Dr. Nosanchuk acknowledged that molds can be dangerous, but also defended them. “They give us cheese, they give beer, they give L.S.D. — they do a lot of really cool things.”
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Chevlen, D. (2026, January 29). People are getting worried about household mold. Should you be? The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/realestate/household-mold-search-traffic-trend.html

a few documents from our meeting

July 12, 2025

Gilbert, J. A., & Hartmann, E. M. (2024). The indoors microbiome and human health. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 22(12), 742–755.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-024-01077-3

An updated 2024 indoor microbiome and human health review from Nature Reviews Microbiology.

Paper on human reads in microbiome data

January 25, 2025

Interesting paper on how the incomplete human genome can cause privacy issues in analyzing metagenomic data.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56077-5