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Study Links Photosynthesis Genes to Marine Virus Fitness

(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent Northeastern University study has shown, for the first time, the effect of individual genes on the fitness of a marine species at the ecosystem level. Using his innovative computer simulation model, ...

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Cyanobacterium demonstrates promise for biotechnology feedstock production

Harvard Medical School researchers have engineered a photosynthetic cyanobacterium to boost sugar production, as a first step towards potential commercial production of biofuels and other biotechnologically and industrially ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Far-out photosynthesis

Photosynthesis maintains Earth's habitability for life as we know it, and shapes the way we search for habitable worlds around distant stars. Scientists have discovered a microbe that can use low-energy light ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Viruses con bacteria into working for them

MIT researchers have discovered that certain photosynthetic ocean bacteria should beware of viruses bearing gifts: These viruses are carrying genetic material taken from their previous bacterial hosts that ...

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created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers figure out how to outperform nature's photosynthesis

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) last week published a paper titled "Solar hydrogen-producing bionanodevice outperforms natural photosynthesis." The authors are Carolyn E. Lubne ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 27 | with audio podcast weblog

Decades-old conclusion about energy-making pathway of cyanobacteria is corrected

A generally accepted 44-year-old assumption about how certain kinds of bacteria make energy and synthesize cell materials has been shown to be incorrect by a team of scientists led by Donald Bryant, the Ernest ...

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created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

U of M researchers close in on technology for making renewable petroleum

University of Minnesota researchers are a key step closer to making renewable petroleum fuels using bacteria, sunlight and dioxide, a goal funded by a $2.2 million United States Department of Energy grant.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Marine viruses changing Earth's system: study

All but overlooked until the past decade, marine viruses far outnumber any other biological entity on the planet. Scientists are only beginning to discover the invisible particles that are the cogs of Earth's ...

Biology / Ecology

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'Black box' plankton found to have huge role in ocean carbon fixation

Carbon fixation by phytoplankton in the open ocean plays a key role in the global carbon cycle but is not fully understood. Until now researchers believed that cyanobacteria overwhelmingly accounted for phytoplankton's role ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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Biologists discover how biological clock controls cell division in bacteria

A team of biologists has unraveled the biochemistry of how bacteria so precisely time cell division, a key element in understanding how all organisms from bacteria to humans use their biological clocks to ...

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created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dust deposited in oceans may carry elements toxic to marine algae

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dust blown off the continents and deposited in the open ocean is an important source of nutrients for marine phytoplankton, the tiny algae that are the foundation of the ocean food web. But ...

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