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The microbial hydrocarbon diet
Bioremediation of industrial sites and petrochemical spillages often involves finding microbes that can gorge themselves on the toxic chemicals. This leaves behind a non-toxic residue or mineralized material. view more (2009-06-12)
Using microbes for the quick clean up of dirty oil
Microbiologists from the University of Essex, UK have used microbes to break down and remove toxic compounds from crude oil and tar sands. view more (2009-09-08)
Metagenomics of the deep Mediterranean
Metagenomics is a revolutionary approach to study microbes. Rather than isolating pure cultures, the power of high-throughput sequencing is applied directly to environmental samples to obtain information about the genomes of the prokaryotic cells present in a specific habitat studied. view more (2007-09-19)
Learning to live with oxygen on early Earth
Washington, D.C. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution and Penn State University have discovered evidence showing that microbes adapted to living with oxygen 2.72 billion years ago, at least 300 million years before the rise of oxygen in the atmosphere. view more (2006-10-17)
Scientists launch first comprehensive database of human oral microbiome
Scientists know more today than ever before about the microbes that inhabit our mouths. They know so much, in fact, that gathering all of the relevant bits of information into one place when designing experiments can be a job in itself. view more (2008-03-27)
Where man boldly goes, bacteria follow
Life in outer space is an absolute certainty, and it is likely to be more familiar than we might think, according to an article in the May issue of Microbiology Today. Ever since the start of the space race we have sent more than just satellites and astronauts into space: spacecraft are not routinely decontaminated and are teeming with microbial... view more... (2008-05-29)
Being green doesn't make a plant environmentally friendly â€" Microbiology Today: May 2005 issue
Britain's gardens are under threat from new species of microbes introduced on exotic plants, according to an article in the May 2005 issue of Microbiology Today, the quarterly magazine of the Society for General Microbiology. view more (2005-04-26)
£4.5M for new studies on gene flow in GM and conventional agriculture
New research, totalling around £4.5M, into the behaviour and transfer of genes within and between plants and microbes is announced today by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Fifteen projects are the first to be funded under the joint BBSRC/NERC initiative... view more... (2000-11-23)
Microbiology Today magazine May 2003
The number of sexually transmitted infections (STI) is rising rapidly. This issue of Microbiology Today focuses on various aspects of the problem. The second National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal 2000), funded by the Medical Research Council, is the most recent data on sexual behaviour in Britain. This study confirmed that the... view more... (2003-05-07)
Microbes compete with animals for food by making it stink
Microbes may compete with large animal scavengers by producing repugnant chemicals that deter higher species from consuming valuable food resources - such as decaying meat, seeds and fruit, a new study suggests. view more (2006-11-02)
Parasites that live inside cells use loophole to thwart immune system
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered a mechanism by which intracellular pathogens can shut down one of the body's key chemical weapons against them: nitric oxide. view more (2008-11-04)
Scientists reveal the lifestyle evolution of wild marine bacteria
Marine bacteria in the wild organize into professions or lifestyle groups that partition many resources rather than competing for them, so that microbes with one lifestyle, such as free-floating cells, flourish in proximity with closely related microbes that may spend life attached to zooplankton or algae. view more (2008-05-23)
Microbes in mud flats clean up oil spill chemicals
Micro-organisms occurring naturally in coastal mudflats have an essential role to play in cleaning up pollution by breaking down petrochemical residues. view more (2009-03-30)
Scientists visualize how bacteria talk to one another
Using imaging mass spectrometry, researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed tools that will enable scientists to visualize how different cell populations of cells communicate. view more (2009-11-09)
ESA to search for life, but not as we know it
This week, astrobiologists are discussing what ESA`s Huygens spaceprobe might discover when it parachutes to the surface of Saturn`s mysterious moon, Titan, in 2005. Titan possesses a rich atmosphere of organic molecules, which Huygens will analyse. Recently some scientists have begun to think that, by redefining life, in broader terms, what we... view more... (2002-09-19)
Hydrothermal vents: Hot spots of microbial diversity
Thousands of new kinds of marine microbes have been discovered at two deep-sea hydrothermal vents off the Oregon coast by scientists at the MBL (Marine Biological Laboratory) and University of Washington's Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean. view more (2007-10-05)
Antibiotics take toll on beneficial microbes in gut
It's common knowledge that a protective navy of bacteria normally floats in our intestinal tracts. Antibiotics at least temporarily disturb the normal balance. view more (2009-06-19)
'Pachinko chances' - New theory suggests that human metabolism works like a pachinko pinball machine and may explain adverse effects of drugs
Scientists from Imperial College London and AstraZeneca have advanced a new theory that animal and human metabolisms often work like a Japanese Pachinko type pinball machine. The researchers used the new science of metabonomics to look at global human metabolism, and how it might interact with certain drugs, the environment and the gut... view more... (2003-07-31)
Bigelow Laboratory Scientists develop new approach to study marine microbes
Drs. Michael Sieracki and Ramunas Stepanauskas, scientists at Bigelow Laboratory, have proven a new approach of obtaining genetic codes of ocean microbes, based on the analysis of individual unicellular organisms. view more (2007-05-22)
Microbes, by latitudes and altitudes, shed new light on life's diversity
Microbial biologists, including the University of Oregon's Jessica L. Green, may not have Jimmy Buffett's music from 1977 in mind, but they are changing attitudes about evolutionary diversity on Earth, from oceanic latitudes to mountainous altitudes. view more (2008-08-12)
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