Tag Archives: Bacteria

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 11, 2020 St Petersburg University researchers, led by Professor Raul R. Gainetdinov, director of the Translational Biomedicine Institute and Academic Supervisor of St Petersburg University Hospital, have found a new role for the recently discovered neurotransmitter system that uses the trace amine associated receptor …

[ad_1] Research from the International Space Station reveals the benefits of using bacteria to extract minerals from material found on the Moon and Mars. A specific bacterium is capable of extracting rare earth elements from volcanic rock under multiple gravity conditions. NASA has historically avoided contaminating its mission with bacteria, …

[ad_1] Research from the International Space Station reveals the benefits of using bacteria to extract minerals from material found on the Moon and Mars. A specific bacterium is capable of extracting rare earth elements from volcanic rock under multiple gravity conditions. NASA has historically avoided contaminating its mission with bacteria, …

[ad_1] Research from the International Space Station reveals the benefits of using bacteria to extract minerals from material found on the Moon and Mars. A specific bacterium is capable of extracting rare earth elements from volcanic rock under multiple gravity conditions. NASA has historically avoided contaminating its mission with bacteria, …

[ad_1] The artist’s interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog can help fill knowledge gaps about the microbes that play key roles in Earth’s microbiomes. (Credit: Zosia Rostomian / Berkeley Lab) Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods over the past decade, researchers have discovered genomes …

[ad_1] Growing microbes in a petri dish is pretty simple – dab just about anything, wipe it on an agar plate, let it sit for a few days in a warm room, and presto! You raised new furry friends. But the microbial species you can grow in a petri dish …

[ad_1] Diversity in Hawaiian corals is likely driven by coevolution Diversity in Hawaiian corals is likely driven by coevolution. A study funded by the National Science Foundation of the United States conducted by researchers from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa revealed that diversity in Hawaiian corals is likely driven …

[ad_1] The human body is unable to live in space for very long, so when astronauts have to stay on the International Space Station (ISS) for months, they can expect changes in their bodies, as is the case with American astronaut Scott Kelly, who has spent a year aboard the …

[ad_1] A year in space is not a walk in the park. Just ask Scott Kelly, the American astronaut who spent a year on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015. His long stay in space changed his DNA, telomeres and gut microbiome, he lost bone density and three months …

[ad_1] In many species of bacteria there are peculiar hybrid structures called retrons which are half RNA and half single stranded DNA. Since their discovery some 35 years ago, researchers have learned to use backons to produce single strands of DNA in the laboratory, but no one knew what their …