News tagged with decomposers

New insights into the 'smell of death' could help recover bodies in disasters and solve crimes

In an advance toward the first portable device for detecting human bodies buried in disasters and at crime scenes, scientists today report early results from a project to establish the chemical fingerprint ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Little-known marine decomposers attract the attention of genome sequencers

The Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) announced today that they will sequence the genomes of four species of labyrinthulomycetes. These little-known marine species were selected for sequencing ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Compounds shared by all worms may lead to parasite treatment

(Phys.org) -- Worms are important decomposers in soil and are great for fishing, but in humans, the slimy wrigglers spell trouble. Hookworms, whipworms, Ascaris, Guinea worms and trichina worms are just a ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast