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Staving Off Ecological Disaster In Lungs

Saturday, August 8th, 2009 - 10:29:26 - Anuradha Menon

Viewing the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis as troubled ecosystems that need to be managed may lead to new ways of treating bacterial...

Big Oil Turns to Algae

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 - 10:35:08 - Anuradha Menon

Two of Craig Venter's recent passions have been combing the Earth for microbes and other minute critters that reveal the diversity of life, and...

The Microbial Hydrocarbon Diet

Friday, June 12th, 2009 - 18:32:28 - Anuradha Menon

Bioremediation of industrial sites and petrochemical spillages often involves finding microbes that can gorge themselves on the toxic chemicals. This...

Alien Microbes Found under Antarctic Glacier

Friday, April 17th, 2009 - 18:43:06 - Anuradha Menon

An unmapped reservoir of briny liquid chemically similar to sea water, but buried under an inland Antarctic glacier, appears to support unusual...

Marine Method to Isolate Harmful Chemicals

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 - 16:36:43 - Anuradha Menon

Scientists studying how marine bacteria move have discovered that a sharp variation in water current segregates right-handed bacteria from their...

Do-it-Yourself Biology

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 - 12:08:19 - Anuradha Menon

Building a cell from scratch is a lot more complicated than building a computer. But that's just what synthetic biologists, including many at MIT...

DNA Computer Puts Microbes to Work

Monday, June 2nd, 2008 - 10:51:08 - Ehud Rattner

It's not your normal, electronic silicon-based machine, but scientists have made a computer from a small, circular piece of DNA, then inserted it...

How Low Can Life Go?

Friday, May 23rd, 2008 - 20:54:40 - Ehud Rattner

Microbes have created a home in 111-million-year-old rock buried 1.6 kilometers below the sea floor, researchers have found. The discovery beats the...

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