Intercontinental study sheds light on the microbial life of sourdough
Credit: Lauren Nichols In a study of 500 sourdough starters spanning four continents, scientists have garnered new insights into the ...
Tag: Microbiology
Iron-carrying extracellular vesicles are key to respiratory viral-bacterial co-infection
Credit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Jan. 26, 2021 - The mechanism by which acute viral respiratory infections promote secondary bacterial ...
A research team from Denmark discovers new control mechanism in the innate immune system
Credit: Rasmus Kjeldsen Jensen, Aarhus University Although the protein ITIH4 is found in large amounts in the blood, its function ...
Development of rapid method for extraction of natural blue chromophore from cyanobacteria
Credit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Overview: Phycocyanobilin (PCB) is a natural blue chromophore found in ...
Preserving stem cells and tissue without the freezer burn
Dr. Robert Ben of uOttawa's Department of Chemistry leads multi-million-dollar initiative that thwarts ice growth to preserve samples for future ...
Meta-Apo supports cheaper, quicker microbiome functional assessment
Credit: JING Gongchao A new algorithm may reduce the need for expensive, time-consuming whole-genome sequencing computations to understand how a ...
Microbiome Search Engine 2 helps researchers explore microbiome space
Credit: JING Gongchao Metagenomics - the study of genetic material from an environmental sample - is growing as species evolve ...
Methods in studying cycad leaf nutrition found to be inconsistent and incomplete
Credit: University of Guam Collective research to date regarding nutrients found in the leaves of contemporary cycad species has been ...
Adaptive optics with cascading corrective elements
A cascaded dual deformable phase plate wavefront modulator enables direct AO integration with existing microscopes--doubling the aberration correction range and ...
Seeds transfer their microbes to the next generation
Credit: Stockholm University Scientists have been pondering if the microbiome of plants is due to nature or nurture. Research at ...
World’s largest lakes reveal climate change trends
Credit: Karl Bosse/MTRI NASA-funded research on the 11 largest freshwater lakes in the world coupled field and satellite observations to ...
Message in a bottle: Info-rich bubbles respond to antibiotics
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. Once regarded as merely cast-off waste products of cellular life, bacterial membrane ...
Novel effector biology research provides insights into devastating citrus greening disease
Credit: Kelley J. Clark, Zhiqian Pang, Jessica Trinh, Nian Wang, and Wenbo Ma Citrus greening disease, also known as Huanglongbing ...
Fighting respiratory virus outbreaks through ‘nano-popcorn’ sensor-based rapid detection
Researchers develop novel sensor for the improved detection of influenza A viruses, with high reproducibilityCredit: Arek Socha from Pixabay Viral ...
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