Research reveals ancient people had more diverse gut microorganisms
Only an anthropologist would treasure millennia-old human feces found in dry caves.
Evolution
May 13, 2021
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Mapping citrus microbiomes: The first step to finding plant-microbiome treasures
Due to their complexity and microscopic scale, plant-microbe interactions can be quite elusive. Each researcher focuses on a piece of the interaction, and it is hard to find all the pieces let alone assemble them into a comprehensive ...
Biotechnology
May 10, 2021
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Team creates microbe to turn waste into useful chemicals
A research team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory bioengineered a microbe to efficiently turn waste into itaconic acid, an industrial chemical used in plastics and paints.
Biochemistry
May 3, 2021
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Soil bacteria evolve with climate change
While evolution is normally thought of as occurring over millions of years, researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that bacteria can evolve in response to climate change in 18 months. In a study ...
Evolution
Apr 28, 2021
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Deep under the ocean, microbes are active and poised to eat whatever comes their way
The subseafloor constitutes one of the largest and most understudied ecosystems on Earth. While it is known that life survives deep down in the fluids, rocks, and sediments that make up the seafloor, scientists know very ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2021
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Climate-friendly microbes chomp dead plants without releasing heat-trapping methane
The tree of life just got a little bigger: A team of scientists from the U.S. and China has identified an entirely new group of microbes quietly living in hot springs, geothermal systems and hydrothermal sediments around ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 23, 2021
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As plant/animal diversity wanes, is microbial life changing too? A perilously 'profound ignorance'
Alarms about the declining diversity of plants and animals raise a related concern with equally profound implications: Is the variety of microbial life, including viruses, changing too? And if so, in which direction and how ...
Ecology
Apr 19, 2021
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Living fossils: Microbe discovered in evolutionary stasis for millions of years
It's like something out of science fiction. Research led by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has revealed that a group of microbes, which feed off chemical reactions triggered by radioactivity, have been at an evolutionary ...
Evolution
Apr 8, 2021
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How the spinifex got its hole
Anyone who has visited the Australian outback would be familiar with spinifex grasses, which cover almost a fifth of our continent.
Plants & Animals
Apr 7, 2021
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Study finds microbial-plant interactions affect the microbial response to climate change
University of California, Irvine, biologists have discovered that plants influence how their bacterial and fungal neighbors react to climate change. This finding contributes crucial new information to a hot topic in environmental ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2021
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