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New Microbe Degrades Oil to Gas

August 20, 2019

Microscopy suggests that the recently discovered microbe Methanoliparia produces methane from crude oil all by themselves...

Making Microbes That Transform Greenhouse Gases

August 14, 2019

New technique uses a human enzyme to convert specific one-carbon materials into more complex compounds commonly used as ...

Microbial Manufacturing: Genetic Engineering Breakthrough for Urban Farming

July 26, 2019

New research of MIT's Research Enterprise in Singapore's IRG, DiSTAP, revolutionizes the creation of genetic material, enabli...

An Apple Carries about 100 Million Bacteria—Good Luck Washing Them Off

July 25, 2019

Most microbes are inside the apple—but the strains depend on which bits you eat, and whether you go organic

Newly Discovered Biosynthetic Pathway in Bacteria Recipe for Drug Discovery and Production

July 22, 2019

In searching for useful products, a team of chemists in Illinois have discovered a whole new class of microbial recipes...

Scientists Hit Pay Dirt with New Microbial Research Technique

June 24, 2019

Researchers detail the first-ever successful use of a technique called BONCAT to isolate active microbes present in a sample ...

Organic Carbon Hides in Sediments, Keeping Oxygen in Atmosphere

June 13, 2019

Knowing exactly how such carbon becomes locked away in rock and sediments could help explain why the mixture of gases in the ...

Arsenic-Breathing Life Discovered in the Tropical Pacific Ocean

May 2, 2019

Researchers analyzed seawater samples from a region below the surface where oxygen is almost absent, forcing life to seek oth...

Microbes Interact with Harmful Chemicals in Dust

April 11, 2019

Microbes in household dust can break down harmful chemicals, study shows

NASA Researchers Catalogue All Microbes, Fungi on the International Space Station

April 9, 2019

The researchers found that microbes on the ISS were mostly human-associated

Discovering the Role of Microbes in Ocean Life

March 8, 2019

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences studies the organisms that influence the ocean's ability to sustain life

'Incredibly' Diverse Microbial Community Discovered High in Yellowstone National Park

March 4, 2019

The community of microorganisms lives in a sapphire blue hot spring 8,600 feet above sea level on the Continental Divide...

Microbes Help Make the Coffee

February 4, 2019

Lactic acid bacteria play an important, positive role ini the coffee fermentation process

Trekking Thousands of Feet Underground—All for Science

February 4, 2019

The Barton Lab at the University of Akron specializes in cave ecosystem research

Gene-Editing Tool Now Being Used to Develop Better Antibiotics

January 15, 2019

The technique, known as Mobile-CRISPRi, allows scientists to screen for antibiotic function in a wide range of pathogenic bac...

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