News tagged with deadly microbe

Pulp NonFiction: Fungal analysis reveals clues for targeted biomass deconstruction

Without fungi and microbes to break down dead trees and leaf litter in nature, the forest floor might look like a scene from TV's "Hoarders."

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Variety of EHEC bacteria found in Dutch sugar-beets

Dutch health authorities said Thursday they found EHEC bacteria in sugar-beets exported to Germany and Belgium, but it was a different variety to the deadly strain that has killed 25 people.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Microbe processes carbon via new metabolic pathway

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Dead Sea microbe has been found to use a previously unknown metabolic pathway to metabolize fats as a source of carbon to synthesize carbohydrates. This suggests there may be other undiscovered pathways ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Underwater oil could create new 'dead zone' in Gulf

Giant plumes of oil drifting deep in the Gulf of Mexico could create a new 'dead zone' of oxygen-depleted waters unfit for marine life and wreak environmental damage that will take generations to overcome, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Dead Sea-dwelling microbes reveal roots of protein common to all higher life forms

(PhysOrg.com) -- We have more in common with Dead Sea-dwelling microbes than previously thought. University of Florida researchers have found that one of the most common proteins in complex life forms may have evolved from ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Model microbial community for studying expanding dead zones characterized

Among the many changes in the ocean is the expansion of oxygen-deficient or oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), also known as dead zones, which affect the processes by which carbon is captured and sequestered on ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gulf's 'dead zone' much smaller than predicted (w/ Video)

NOAA-supported scientists, led by Nancy Rabalais, Ph.D., from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), found the size of this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone to be smaller than forecasted, measuring 3,000 square ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Scientists discover how deadly fungus protects itself

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered how a deadly microbe evades the human immune system and causes disease.

Biology /

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0