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Apr 7, 2008

Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston
A great actor, Charlton Heston, died on April 5th, 2008.

Can you find the connection between Heston and actinomycetes?

(Please leave your answer as a comment to this post. I will do the same).

Slant cultures of several actinomycetes
Charlton Heston's image from Poletti.
Image credits for actinomycetes: CDC/Dr. David Berd (PHIL #3078), 1972. From the CDC Public Health Image Library, via Wikimedia Commons.

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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 11, 2008 at 2:10 PM

    Is there any connection, indeed? Maybe that some actinomycetes are twisted and Charlton Heston had a twisted mind? ;)
    Don't keep us with the mystery too long!

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  2. AnonymousApril 11, 2008 at 2:37 PM

    I think I know the answer....
    now they share the same ecological niche!

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  3. SarahApril 16, 2008 at 12:15 PM

    I'm a chemist not a microbiologist but it the connection something to do with Charlton Heston having Alzheimer's Disease?

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  4. Manuel SánchezApril 21, 2008 at 11:11 AM

    Hello

    Possible answers

    The most obvious is in "Ben-Hur" the mother and the sisters are infected with Mycobacterium leprae.

    The other is "Soylent green", if I recall corretly, one of the variants ot the SCP (Single Cell Protein) was made with bacteria that eat hidrocarbons. One possible candidate is a member of the genus Nocardia.

    Regards

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  5. Cesar SanchezMay 5, 2008 at 5:21 PM

    Thanks for your answers! Mine can be read at Charlton Heston: the connection.

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