News tagged with marine microbe

Protein analysis investigates marine worm community

(Phys.org) -- Techniques used by researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to analyze a simple marine worm and its resident bacteria could accelerate efforts to understand more ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hot new manufacturing tool: A temperature-controlled microbe

Many manufacturing processes rely on microorganisms to perform tricky chemical transformations or make substances from simple starting materials. The authors of a study appearing in mBio, the online open-access journal of the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Decade-long study reveals recurring patterns of viruses in the open ocean

Viruses fill the ocean and have a significant effect on ocean biology, specifically marine microbiology, according to a professor of biology at UC Santa Barbara and his collaborators.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It's not who you are, but what you do

(PhysOrg.com) -- When you're a tiny creature in a vast ocean it pays to hang out with the right crowd, regardless of whether they are related to you or not, a new study into the amazingly diverse world of ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Regulating Earth's climate with micro-organisms

Scientists have sought to learn more about how the Earth's oceans absorb carbon dioxide and generally exchange gases with the atmosphere so they can better understand the corresponding effects on climate. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Global marine life census charts vast world beneath the seas

Results of the first-ever global marine life census were unveiled Monday, revealing an unprecedented view of life beneath the waves after a decade-long trawl through the murky depths.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 04, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Microbes on the menu

The functioning of marine ecosystems depends on the size and flavor of microbes at the base of the food chain. Changes to the Earth's atmosphere might rearrange that microscopic menu. Microbes that currently ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 28, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tiny marine microbes exert influence on global climate (w/ Video)

New research indicates that the interactions of microscopic organisms around a particular organic material may alter the chemical properties of the ocean and ultimately influence global climate by affecting ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New research into the deep ocean floor yields promising results for microbiologists

Research by a small group of microbiologists is revealing how marine microbes live in a mysterious area of the Earth: the realm just beneath the deep ocean floor. The ocean crust may be the largest biological reservoir on ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ocean census uncovers 'new world' of marine microbe life

An ocean census has revealed a "new world" of richly diverse marine microbe life that could help scientists understand more about key environmental processes on Earth, a study said Sunday.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 18, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Gut feeling: Intestinal germ helps sushi digestion

Japanese have an easy time digesting sushi and other seaweed-wrapped delicacies thanks in part to an intestinal bacterium that hijacked genes from a marine germ, scientists report on Wednesday.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Microbial answer to plastic pollution?

Fragments of plastic in the ocean are not just unsightly but potentially lethal to marine life. Coastal microbes may offer a smart solution to clean up plastic contamination, according to Jesse Harrison presenting ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 28, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Microbe understudies await their turn in the limelight

(PhysOrg.com) -- On the marine microbial stage, there appears to be a vast, varied group of understudies only too ready to step in when "star" microbes falter.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Iron controls patterns of nitrogen fixation in the Atlantic

Scientists including researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and the University of Essex have discovered that interactions between iron supply, transported through the atmosphere from ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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