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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Scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München, in collaboration with colleagues from the TU München and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), have studied how soil microorganisms react to climatic change. Their result: ...
Environment
Dec 3, 2014
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Scientists have a constructed a new database of the diversity in an enzyme that is used by microorganisms to metabolize sulfur.
Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2014
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A scientist from UPM has developed a method to enhance crop yield by the contact of roots, aerial parts or even the substratum of the plant fungus, 'Colletotrichum tofieldiae'.
Biotechnology
Oct 6, 2014
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