News tagged with microbial communities
Map of Human Bacterial Diversity Shows Wide Interpersonal Differences
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different ...
Unusual bacteria help balance the immune system in mice
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Medical researchers have long suspected that obscure bacteria living within the intestinal tract may help keep the human immune system in balance. An international collaboration co-led by scientists at NYU ...
New age of discovery for new proteins dawns
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- We are on the brink of another new age of discovery- this time of countless new proteins, which could be used in a whole range of situations from medicine to industry, following the successful ...
Scientists begin census of microbes: the trillions that live in or on us
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Scientists are beginning a large-scale effort to identify and analyze the vast majority of cells in or on your body that aren't of human origin.
Alternative agricultural practices combine productivity and soil health
Jul 24, 2009 |
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The progressive degradation of useful soils for agriculture and farm animal husbandry is a growing environmental and social problem, given that it endangers the food safety of an increasing world population. This fact prompted ...
Small RNAs yield great amounts of data from ocean microbe samples
May 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes' natural gene expression has yielded an unexpected boon: the presence of many varieties of small RNAs -- snippets ...
MIT reels in RNA surprise with microbial ocean catch
May 13, 2009 |
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An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes' natural gene expression has yielded an unexpected boon: the presence of many varieties of small RNAs — snippets of RNA that act as ...
Brine-Loving Microbes Reveal Secrets to Success in Chemically Extreme Environments
Apr 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have completed the first study of microbes that live within the plumbing of deep-sea mud volcanoes in the Gulf of Mexico, where conditions may resemble those in extraterrestrial ...
Microbes in mud flats clean up oil spill chemicals
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Micro-organisms occurring naturally in coastal mudflats have an essential role to play in cleaning up pollution by breaking down petrochemical residues. Research by Dr Efe Aganbi and colleagues from the University of Essex, ...
After the first decade of metagenomics -- adolescent growth spurt anticipated
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Sep 25, 2008 |
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Mostly hidden from the scrutiny of the naked eye, microbes have been said to run the world. The challenge is how best to characterize them given that less than one percent of the estimated hundreds of millions of microbial ...
