Mindzilla – Cyanobacteria

New Candidate for Raw Material Synthesis Through Gene Transfer

July 6, 2020
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Karlsruhe, Germany — Cyanobacteria hardly need any nutrients and use the energy of sunlight. Bathers are familiar with these microorganisms – often incorrectly called “blue-green algae”...

From Bacteria to You: The Biological Reactions that Sustain Our Rhythms

June 11, 2020
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Kyoto, Japan — Every second of every day, countless biochemical reactions take place in our bodies’ cells. The organization of this complex system is the result of billions of years of evolution,...

Scientists Shed Light on Essential Carbon-Fixing Machinery in Bacteria

May 7, 2020
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Boulder, CO — Scientists have been studying cyanobacteria and its many potential applications for decades, from cutting CO2 emissions to creating a substitute for oil-based plastics, but there wasn’t...

Study Shows How Microorganisms Survive in Harsh Environments

May 5, 2020
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Research Triangle Park, NC — In northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, microorganisms are able to eke out an existence by extracting water from the rocks they colonize. An...

Photosynthesis — Living Laboratories

November 28, 2019
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Munich, Germany — Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich biologists Marcel Dann and Dario Leister have demonstrated for the first time that cyanobacteria and plants employ similar mechanisms...

How Multicellular Cyanobacteria Transport Molecules

July 15, 2019
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Zürich, Switzerland — Also known as blue-green algae, cyanobacteria are a special class of bacteria that are able to perform photosynthesis. In evolutionary terms, they are ancient. Their predecessors...

Research Team Throws New Light on Photosynthetic Supercomplex Structure

May 28, 2019
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Tempe, Arizona — A team of scientists from Arizona State University has taken a significant step closer to unlocking the secrets of photosynthesis, by determining the structure of a very large photosynthetic...

How Bacteria Build Hyper-Efficient Photosynthesis Machines

January 24, 2019
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Guelph, ON — Researchers facing a future with a larger population and more uncertain climate are looking for ways to improve crop yields, and they’re looking to photosynthetic bacteria for engineering...

Cells Decide When to Divide Based on Their Internal Clocks

November 16, 2018
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Cambridge, UK — The time of day, determined by a cell’s internal clock, has a stronger influence on cell division than previously thought, reveals a new study. Cells replicate by dividing,...

Researchers Adapt Cyanobacteria for Industrial Production of Biocatalysts

August 6, 2015
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Bochum, Germany — Using photosynthetically active microorganisms, researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have succeeded in manufacturing several biocatalysts suitable for industrial application:...