Oil-Eating Bacterium Rebuilds Its Cell Surface to Degrade Tough Long-Chain Alkanes
A new study shows how the petroleum-degrading bacterium Rhodococcus erythropolis ICBD2 remodels its membrane, cell wall and gene expression to ...
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Microbes Offer a Powerful New Way to Break Down the World’s Aquatic Pollutants
A new review in Blue Biotechnology details how bacteria, archaea, algae and fungi metabolize everything from oil spills and pesticides ...
Rare Hot-Loving Microbes Drive Toxic Souring in Oil Reservoirs
New research shows that rare, highly active sulfate-reducing bacteria, not the most abundant species, drive hydrogen sulfide production and biogenic ...
Polluted Nigerian Lagoon Yields Bacteria That Eat Oil and Tolerate Toxic Metals
Bacteria isolated from Nigeria's polluted Ologe Lagoon can degrade up to 85 percent of crude oil hydrocarbons while tolerating lead, ...
New Software Sharpens the Hunt for Microbes That Devour Toxic Fuel Pollutants
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed BTEXgenie, a curated hidden Markov model-based tool that dramatically improves substrate-specific annotation of ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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