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Genes that make bacteria make up their minds
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Bacteria are single cell organisms with no nervous system or brain. So how do individual bacterial cells living as part of a complex community called a biofilm "decide" between different physiological processes (such as movement ...
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Patience pays off with methanol for uranium bioremediation
Feb 23, 2009 |
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The legacy of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy development has left ground water and sediment at dozens of sites across the United States and many more around the world contaminated with uranium. The uranium is transported ...
Bacteria and nanofilters -- the future of clean water technology
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 12, 2008 |
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Bacteria often get bad press, with those found in water often linked to illness and disease. But researchers at The University of Nottingham are using these tiny organisms alongside the very latest membrane filtration techniques ...
Bacteria and nanofilters -- the future of clean water technology
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 22, 2008 |
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Bacteria often get bad press, with those found in water often linked to illness and disease. But researchers at The University of Nottingham are using these tiny organisms alongside the very latest membrane filtration techniques ...
Bacteria That Degrade PCBs Identified
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Mar 28, 2007 |
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Researchers have identified a group of bacteria that can detoxify a common type of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which have contaminated more than 250 U.S. sites, including river and lake sediments.
Catalyst mystery unlocked
Aug 18, 2008 |
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Different keys are not supposed to fit the same lock, but in biological systems multiple versions of a catalyst all make a reaction go, according to a new study that explains the phenomenon. Scheduled for online publication ...
Scientists track chemical changes in cells as they endure extreme conditions
Jul 07, 2009 |
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One of nature's most gripping feats of survival is now better understood. For the first time, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory observed the chemical changes in individual ...
Scientists characterize protein structure of environmentally friendly bacteria
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May 19, 2008 |
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have determined the structure of a key protein domain in a bacterium that could help with bioremediation of uranium-contaminated land ...
Researchers develop way to calculate speed of bacterial sex
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May 15, 2007 |
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Scientists from the University of California-Davis recently developed a mathematical model of the rate of gene transfer among bacteria in the environment. Researchers believe this new model improves upon existing models by ...
Plant microbe shares features with drug-resistant pathogen
Jun 16, 2009 |
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An international team of scientists has discovered extensive similarities between a strain of bacteria commonly associated with plants and one increasingly linked to opportunistic infections in hospital patients. The findings ...
Forest Service Scientist Uses X-Rays To Understand Wood-Decay Mechanism
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Aug 09, 2005 |
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The innovative use of sophisticated physics technology by a USDA Forest Service biologist has led to fundamental advances in understanding the molecular and chemical processes involved in fungal wood decay, thereby opening ...
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