News tagged with microbial mats

Team finds Yellowstone alga that detoxifies arsenic

Mar 09, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Arsenic may be tough, but scientists have found a Yellowstone National Park alga that's tougher.

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Climate change could impact vital functions of microbes

Jun 03, 2008 | 3.1 / 5 (8) | 2

Global climate change will not only impact plants and animals but will also affect bacteria, fungi and other microbial populations that perform a myriad of functions important to life on earth. It is not entirely certain ...

Scientists finding sink holes in Great Lakes

Biology / Ecology

May 04, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (15) | 2

Scientists studying submerged sinkholes in the Great Lakes off the coast of northern Michigan have stumbled onto something they never expected to find: life forms akin to those found in some of Earth's most extreme environments.

Large-scale sequencing: The future of genomic sciences?

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

Dec 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Scientists can gain insights into new ways to use microorganisms in medicine and manufacturing through a coordinated large-scale effort to sequence the genomes of not just individual microorganisms but entire ecosystems, ...

Scientists say that microbial mats built 3.4-billion-year-old stromatolites

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jul 16, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (8) | 2

Stromatolites are dome- or column-like sedimentary rock structures that are formed in shallow water, layer by layer, over long periods of geologic time. Now, researchers from the California Institute of Technology ...

Surprising new species of light-harvesting bacterium discovered in Yellowstone

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Jul 26, 2007 | 4.5 / 5 (53) | 0

In the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, a team of researchers has discovered a novel bacterium that transforms light into chemical energy.

Antimicrobial antibodies in celiac disease: Trick or treat?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

Aug 26, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Anti-microbial antibody formation has been reported in celiac disease. Relatively high positivity rates were observed for the conventional antibodies, for example, ASCA, anti-OmpW, and anti-I2, and they were known to decrease ...

Freeze-dried mats of microbes awaken in Antarctic streambed

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Aug 09, 2005 | not rated yet | 0

An experiment in a dry Antarctic stream channel has shown that a carpet of freeze-dried microbes that lay dormant for two decades sprang to life one day after water was diverted into it, said a University of ...

After the first decade of metagenomics -- adolescent growth spurt anticipated

Biology /

Sep 25, 2008 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

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 ...