In a new collaboration, scientists at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) have identified the types of microbes that associate with engineered oilcane. Further exploration of the oilcane microbiome ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 10, 2023
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Caecilians are an elusive type of amphibian that primarily live underground and look like a cross between a worm and a snake. One of the few things that is known about caecilians is their unique method for feeding their young. ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 24, 2023
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On the list of scientific tools that help us understand health, evolution or the environment, the Trinidadian guppy doesn't often come to mind.
Plants & Animals
May 27, 2022
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Mass-blooming, monoculture crop fields don't seem to reduce the microbial diversity in a bee's gut, University of Oregon researchers have found in a study of sunflower farms, but they do amplify the spread of infectious parasites.
Ecology
Apr 10, 2024
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For the most part, scientists think of the trillions of microbes that call the human gut home as allies—after all, they've been shown to aid the body in synthesizing key vitamins and other nutrients.
Biochemistry
Nov 16, 2017
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Researchers at the University of Sydney and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science have found that climate change could lead to declines of underwater kelp forests through impacts on their microbiome.
Ecology
Feb 5, 2019
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There's growing recognition that the trillions of microbes living in and on the human body—collectively known as the microbiome—play a critical role in health and disease. However, very little is known about how the diversity ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 3, 2015
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On a drizzly day in July 1920, a Colorado scientist named Junius Henderson was hiking around the Dakota Hogback, a sandstone ridge north of Boulder. There, he spotted a group of Rocky Mountain snails (Oreohelix strigosa) ...
Ecology
Jun 29, 2022
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Pumpkin toadlets are in trouble. Progressively severe droughts are disrupting the microbiomes of the thumbnail-sized orange frogs, potentially leaving them vulnerable to a deadly fungal disease, according to a new study by ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 12, 2024
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Bacteria living on the skin of frogs could save them from a deadly virus, new research suggests.
Ecology
Jun 21, 2019
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