Microbiology
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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A single gene has been discovered to be responsible for ethanol tolerance in C. thermocelllum.
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NIST researchers have found that ethanol, and especially the bacteria sometimes found in it, can dramatically degrade pipelines.
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A team led by University of Maryland researchers has unraveled the genomic code of the E. coli bacteria that has killed 53 people.
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Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB) announced that it has completed a de novo sequence assembly of the Escherichia coli O104:H4 strain responsible for the recent outbreak in Germany using its Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT™)
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As it turns out, humans aren't the only organisms that turn to caffeine for a pick-me-up. University of Iowa scientists have identified four different bacteria that actually can live on caffeine. One of them, known as Pseudomonas putida CBB5, was fo
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The traditional method of testing for microbial contamination has changed very little in the past 100 years. A sample of product is added to a growth medium in a plate or sample container.
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