News tagged with thermophilic bacteria
Heart Lake holds water for Yellowstone's hydrothermal diversity theory
Within Yellowstone National Park, the water emanating from the park's famous hot springs and geysers seems to belong to either one of two distinct types. In some areas, subterranean waters rich in chlorine and dissolved silicates ...
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Evolution writ small: Study measures physical effects of evolution at molecular scale
A unique experiment at Rice University that forces bacteria into a head-to-head competition for evolutionary dominance has yielded new insights about the way Darwinian selection plays out at the molecular level. An exacting ...
Aug 25, 2010 |
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Researchers find high numbers of heat-loving bacteria in cold Arctic Ocean
A team of scientists led by U of C grad Casey Hubert has detected high numbers of heat loving, or thermophilic, bacteria in subzero sediments in the Arctic Ocean off the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The ...
Sep 17, 2009 |
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New insights into ancient life: Chromosome segregation in Archaea
(PhysOrg.com) -- The effort to classify life into various groups has been a bumpy ride. Prior to the 1900s, living things were usually pegged as either plants or animals – period. By the middle of the ...
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Crystal structure of archael chromatin clarified in new study
Researchers at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Harima, Japan, have clarified for the first time how chromatin in archaea, one of the three evolutionary branches of organisms in nature, binds to DNA. The results offer valuable ...
Mar 07, 2012 |
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High planetary tilt lowers odds for life?
Highly-tilted worlds would have extreme seasons, subjecting life to alternating periods of scorching and subzero temperatures. This could make the development of all but hardiest, simplest creatures a long ...
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Feb 06, 2012 |
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Hot springs microbe yields record-breaking, heat-tolerant enzyme
Bioprospectors from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found a microbe in a Nevada hot spring that happily eats plant material – cellulose – ...
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Thermophiles lurking in your basement
Ever wondered what exotic life forms may be lurking in the dark, hidden corners of your home? Scientists wonder too. Studies have shown that our modern plumbing systems provide sanctuary to a menagerie of ...
Apr 07, 2011 |
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3 Questions: Sara Seager on the discovery of a 'new' form of life
Yesterday, NASA announced the discovery of a bacterium that can grow on a diet of arsenic and thus doesn't share the biological building blocks traditionally associated with all life forms. The discovery raises ...
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Dec 03, 2010 |
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Harmful bacteria carried by pigeons
Sampling of pigeons captured on the streets of Madrid has revealed the bacterial pathogens they carry. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica found two bugs that were highly ...
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Experiment turns up the heat on natural selection, reveals new details of an evolutionary mechanism
Scientists in Munich report evidence that high concentrations of the molecular "chaperone" proteins GroEL and GroES -- intracellular machines that can stabilize folding proteins under stress -- play a critical role in increasing ...
Jun 17, 2010 |
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Bacteria from hot springs reveal clues to evolution of early life and to unlock biofuels' potential
A bacteria that lives in hot springs in Japan may help solve one of the mysteries of the early evolution of complex organisms, according to a study publishing next week in PLoS Biology. It may also be the key to 21st centur ...
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Molecular Genealogy in the Arctic Sediment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Heat-loving bacteria found in the Arctic seabed have their origins in oil springs and the depths of the Earth's crust. This is the finding of a project supported by the Austrian Science Fund ...
Jan 18, 2010 |
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