(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers has conducted a worldwide census of fungi that live in plant roots and in so doing has found them to be surprisingly broadly spread. In their paper published in the journal ...
A group of scientists from the Institute of Ecology and the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Mexico (UNAM), have created a membrane capable of simultaneously detecting numerous organisms in water or food ...
Biochemistry
Aug 20, 2015
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In a paper appearing in Scientific Reports today, the motion of micro-organisms as they swim through various types of fluid channels show "quite strange and new" responses for single cell organisms, including the performance ...
General Physics
Aug 19, 2015
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Researchers from The University of Western Australia have challenged the current understanding about which microorganisms carry out important nitrogen transformations in semi-arid agricultural soils.
Environment
Jul 31, 2015
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Health experts have warned for years that the overuse of antibiotics is creating "superbugs" able to resist drugs treating infection.
Evolution
Jul 30, 2015
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April 2015 saw the launch of an ambitious four-year EU project that hopes to unlock the immense potential of marine-sourced enzymes. The consortium behind INMARE (Industrial Applications of Marine Enzymes: Innovative screening ...
Biotechnology
May 1, 2015
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Every beer brewer is locked into a high-maintenance relationship with yeast—those finicky, alcohol-creating microorganisms.
Other
Apr 23, 2015
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Many animals, including humans, acquired essential 'foreign' genes from microorganisms co-habiting their environment in ancient times, according to research published in the open access journal Genome Biology. The study challenges ...
Biotechnology
Mar 12, 2015
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(Phys.org)—An international team of scientists has discovered the greatest absence of evolution ever reported—a type of deep-sea microorganism that appears not to have evolved over more than 2 billion years. But the researchers ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 3, 2015
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Schools across the UK can now collaborate with the Museum on cutting-edge genetic research into the diversity of microscopic species living on buildings.
Ecology
Jan 15, 2015
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