Items tagged with microbe

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Lava Cave Minerals Actually Microbe Poop Saturday, November 21st, 2009 - 09:04:57 - Anuradha Menon Colorful cave deposits long thought to be ordinary minerals are actually mats of waste excreted by previously unknown types of microbes, scientists... read more

A Step Forward for Microbial Machines Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 - 16:18:08 - Anuradha Menon In a deft act of genomic manipulation, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute, in Rockville, MD, transplanted a bacterial genome into yeast... read more

Acclerating Evolution Monday, July 27th, 2009 - 19:38:11 - Ehud Rattner If humans want to persuade microbes to produce vast quantities of fuels or pharmaceuticals, we may need to give evolution a helping hand. A new... read more

Microbes Revived After 120,000 Years On Ice Friday, June 19th, 2009 - 12:45:56 - Anuradha Menon Ultrasmall microbes trapped in glacial ice for 120,000 years have been coaxed back to life, a new study says. The feat adds to evidence that... read more

Ocean Microbes Yield Informative RNAs Friday, May 15th, 2009 - 16:17:00 - Anuradha Menon An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes' natural gene expression has yielded an unexpected boon:... read more

The Games Microbes Play Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 - 10:10:08 - Anuradha Menon One of the perplexing questions raised by evolutionary theory is how cooperative behavior, which benefits other members of a species at a cost to the... read more

Microbe Survives in Ocean's Deepest Realm Saturday, February 7th, 2009 - 14:33:29 - Anuradha Menon The genome of a marine bacterium living 2,500 meters below the ocean's surface is providing clues to how life adapts in extreme environments... read more

Gene Lets Bacteria Jump From Host to Host Monday, February 2nd, 2009 - 09:43:56 - Ehud Rattner All life — plants, animals, people — depends on peaceful coexistence with a swarm of microbial life that performs vital services from helping to... read more

Disabling Tomato Plant's 'Intruder Alarm' Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 - 09:37:33 - Ehud Rattner How a bacterium overcomes a tomato plant's defenses and causes disease, by sneakily disabling the plant's intruder detection systems, is revealed in... read more

How Do Bacteria Swim? Thursday, November 20th, 2008 - 14:02:29 - Anuradha Menon Imagine yourself swimming in a pool: It’s the movement of your arms and legs, not the viscosity of the water, that mostly dictates the speed and... read more

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