Microbiology
Berkeley Lab scientists join an international collaboration to understand how archaea and bacteria work together deep in a cold sulfur spring.
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University of Florida researchers have discovered for the first time that some Earth bacteria can live under the same low pressure conditions found on Mars.
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Researchers have demonstrated a new technology that combines a laser and electric fields to create tiny centrifuge-like whirlpools to separate particles and microbes by size, a potential lab-on-a-chip system for medicine and research.
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The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has initiated a quest for alternatives to conventional antibiotics. One potential alternative is PlyC, a potent enzyme that kills the bacteria that causes strep throat and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.
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University of Arkansas grad student becomes the first scientist to collect slime molds from soils in Panama’s Barro Colorado Nature Monument. In doing so, she becomes one of the first researchers to systematically take samples of slime molds, the most abundant predators of soil bacteria and fungi, in tropical soils.
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Researchers have found what they say is the only fossil ever discovered of a spider attack on prey caught in its web – a 100 million-year-old snapshot of an engagement frozen in time.
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There is evidence that some microbial life had migrated from the Earth’s oceans to land by 2.75 billion years ago, though many scientists believe such land-based life was limited...
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Urban beach closures due to coliform outbreaks have become disturbing signs of summer, yet water-testing technology has never been fast enough to keep up with changing conditions, nor accessible enough to check all waters...
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An initiative called the Earth Microbiome Project, led by Jack Gilbert at Argonne National Laboratory and including scientists all over the world, is tackling the massive task of cataloguing the DNA of all those microbes.
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Thanks to a unique Argonne-developed computer program and cloud computing testbed, researchers mapped the strain's genes recently.
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A new method has been created to sequence and analyze the genomes of thousands of bacteria species previously out of reach.
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Employing technology that reads the entire DNA code, researchers have found what began the outbreak that killed over 6,000 people.
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