News tagged with marine bacteria


First sea trials for deep-ocean robotic DNA lab

First sea trials for deep-ocean robotic DNA lab

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In late April 2009, a team of MBARI researchers tested the world's only deep-sea robotic DNA lab beneath the waters of Monterey Bay.


Two-handed microbes point to new method for isolating harmful forms of chemicals

Microbes point to method for isolating harmful forms of drugs

Physics / Soft Matter

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at MIT and Brown University studying how marine bacteria move recently discovered that a sharp variation in water current segregates right-handed bacteria from their left-handed ...





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Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss

Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...


Sponges against cancer

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Deep under the sea, there's a battle of life and death going on, with no holds barred. Sponges and other marine animals which cannot move around might seem to be defenceless against predators. Yet nothing is further from ...


Judge says seals can stay in California cove (AP)

Judge says seals can stay in California cove

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The seals can stay and play at a La Jolla swimming cove.


You're being followed: Scientists track movement of living things

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Almost 24 centuries after the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote his book, "On the Movement of Animals," modern scientists are still struggling to understand how, why, when and where living creatures move.


Sponges recycle carbon to give life to coral reefs

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Coral reefs support some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, yet they thrive in a marine desert. So how do reefs sustain their thriving populations?


Earth's early ocean cooled more than a billion years earlier than thought: Stanford study

Earth's early ocean cooled more than a billion years earlier than thought (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The scalding-hot sea that supposedly covered the early Earth may in fact never have existed, according to a new study by Stanford University researchers who analyzed isotope ratios in 3.4 ...


A motley collection of boneworms

A motley collection of boneworms (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like a classic horror story -- eyeless, mouthless worms lurk in the dark, settling onto dead animals and sending out green "roots" to devour their bones. In fact, such worms do exist ...


The bizarre lives of bone-eating worms

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The females of the recently discovered Osedax marine worms feast on submerged bones via a complex relationship with symbiotic bacteria, and they are turning out to be far more diverse and widespread than scientists expected. ...


Model microbial community for studying expanding dead zones characterized

Model microbial community for studying expanding dead zones characterized

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Among the many changes in the ocean is the expansion of oxygen-deficient or oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), also known as dead zones, which affect the processes by which carbon is captured and sequestered on ...


Banded rocks reveal early Earth conditions, changes

Banded rocks reveal early Earth conditions, changes

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The strikingly banded rocks scattered across the upper Midwest and elsewhere throughout the world are actually ambassadors from the past, offering clues to the environment of the early Earth ...



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