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Environmental Microbiology

Team Uses Phage-Enhanced Nanoparticles to Kill Bacteria

August 1, 2017
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Houston, TX — Magnetic nanoparticle clusters have the power to punch through biofilms to reach bacteria that can foul water treatment systems, according to scientists at Rice University and the...

Antibiotics Come With ‘Environmental Side Effects,’ Scientists Say

July 26, 2017
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Researchers writing in Microchemical Journal are bringing attention to the fact that commonly used antibiotic drugs are making their way out into the...

Symbiotic Bacteria Produce Antibiotics to Clear Harmful Pathogens from Gut of Caterpillars

January 24, 2017
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Jena, Germany — Beneficial bacteria in the gut of moth larvae produce an antimicrobial agent that kills competing bacteria which otherwise have detrimental effects on insect development.

Microbial Communities Thrive in Deep Down Fracking Wells, Says Study

October 25, 2016
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Richland, WA — Microbes have a remarkable ability to adapt to the extreme conditions in fracking wells, according to a study published in the October issue of Nature Microbiology.

Team Reveals Major Insights into Microbial Communities Living Underground

October 24, 2016
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Berkeley, CA – One of the most detailed genomic studies of any ecosystem to date has revealed an underground world of stunning microbial diversity, and added dozens of new branches to the tree...

Antarctic Sponge Extract Can Help Kill MRSA, Researchers Find

May 18, 2016
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Tampa, FL – A serious and sometimes fatal bacterial infection, known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), may soon be beatable thanks to the efforts of University...

Bacteria are Individualists: Cells Respond Differently to Lack of Nutrients

May 13, 2016
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Munich, Germany — No two bacteria are identical – even when they are genetically the same. A new study from researchers from Eawag, ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, and the Max Planck Institute...

Exploiting Male Killing Bacteria Could Control Insect Pest Species in the Future

May 6, 2016
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Riverside, CA — A team of scientists have discovered a key mechanism that drives a bacteria that kills male insects, a development that could potentially be exploited to control insect pest species...

Study Shows Spread of Bradyrhizobium Has Important Implications for Biofertilizers

April 28, 2016
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Riverside, CA — Scientists at the University of California, Riverside have discovered that a strain of beneficial nitrogen-fixing bacteria has spread across California, demonstrating that beneficial...

Scientists Figured Out How to Deal with Fungal Resistance to Antimycotic Drugs

April 22, 2016
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Moscow, Russia — Research scientists from A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, the Lomonosov Moscow State University demonstrated how it is possible to suppress the resistance of fungi...

Scientists Explore Climate Impact as Rivers Ebb and Flow

April 18, 2016
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Richland, WA — When water levels in rivers rise, an area known as the “river’s liver” kicks into action, cleansing river water of pollutants and altering the flow of greenhouse gases...

Microbiologists Suggest Using Fungi to Decrease the Need for Chemical Fertilizers

April 11, 2016
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Brookings, SD — An ancient, mutually beneficial relationship between plants and fungi could make agriculture more sustainable by reducing the need for chemical fertilizers, according to professor Heike...

Microscopic Key to Reducing Ocean Dead Zones Uncovered

September 22, 2015
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Provo, UT — Along the northern edge of the Gulf of Mexico is a 6,000-square mile dead zone of oxygen-depleted water filled with dead plants, dead fish and a damaged ecosystem.

Bacteria and Amoebae: Who is the World’s Smallest Farmer?

August 24, 2015
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St. Louis, MO — In 2011 the Queller-Strassmann lab, then at Rice University, made a startling announcement in Nature Letters: they found that during the time of food shortage single-celled amoebae of...

Engineered Bacterium Produces Important Industrial Chemical

August 12, 2015
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Daejeon, Republic of Korea — A Korean research team led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science...

Scientists Discover How Microbes Acquire Electricity in Making Methane

May 19, 2015
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Stanford, CA — Stanford University scientists have solved a long-standing mystery about methanogens, unique microorganisms that transform electricity and carbon dioxide into methane.

Regulatory Mechanism of Cellulosome Stoichiometry Revealed

April 27, 2015
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Shanghai, China — Efficient biological degradation of cellulosic biomass has been recognized as one major bottleneck in production of cellulosic liquid fuels or biogas, and as the one key step in the...

New Dataset to Help Scientists Study DNA of Microbes

April 14, 2015
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Oak Ridge, TN — Scientists focused on producing biofuels more efficiently have a new powerful dataset to help them study the DNA of microbes that fuel bioconversion and other processes.

Biologists Partner Bacterium with Nitrogen Gas to Produce More, Cleaner Bioethanol

February 3, 2015
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Bloomington, IN — Indiana University biologists believe they have found a faster, cheaper and cleaner way to increase bioethanol production by using nitrogen gas, the most abundant gas in Earth’s...

Scientists Discover Tropical Tree Microbiome in Panama

September 16, 2014
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Washington, DC — Human skin and gut microbes influence processes from digestion to disease resistance. Despite the fact that tropical forests are the most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystems on the planet,...

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