Microbes can degrade the toughest PFAS
Engineers at UC Riverside are the first to report selective breakdown of a particularly stubborn class of PFAS called fluorinated ...
Tag: microbes
Quantifying the live microbes on your plate
Many have hypothesized that bacteria and other ‘friendly’ live microorganisms consumed through the diet can play an important role in ...
Microbes help orchestrate how the gut uses its genes
DURHAM, N.C. –The microbes that help break down food actually tell the gut how to do its job better, according ...
Soil microbes use different pathways to metabolize carbon
Much of what scientists think about soil metabolism may be wrong. New evidence from Northern Arizona University suggests that microbes ...
Meet the forest microbes that can survive megafires
New UC Riverside research shows fungi and bacteria able to survive redwood tanoak forest megafires are microbial “cousins” that often ...
Preliminary study finds organic vegetables contaminated with wide range of disease-causing microbes
New research to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal ...
New ASM Academy report shows critical role microbes play in climate change
Washington, DC – April 20, 2022 – The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has issued a new report, Microbes and ...
Marine microbes swim towards their favorite food
Although invisible to us, every teaspoon of seawater contains more than a million marine bacteria. These tiny microbes play pivotal ...
Climate-warming microbes thrive in drying peatlands
Nitrous oxide (N2O) a dangerous greenhouse gas, warms the climate and destroys the stratospheric ozone layer. Nitrous oxide is the ...
Do climate changes spur microbes to produce more methane?
Credit: University of Southern Denmark Every day, an increasing number of mineral particles are discharged to the natural ...
Sponges, not just their microbes, make biologically potent compounds
SAN DIEGO, March 20, 2022 — Soft and immobile, sea sponges may appear inert, but these simple animals are rich ...
Microbes and minerals may have set off Earth’s oxygenation
For the first 2 billion years of Earth’s history, there was barely any oxygen in the air. While some microbes ...
Antibiotics after birth affects gut microbes of babies, study finds
Treating babies with antibiotics in the first week of life is linked with a decrease in healthy bacteria necessary amongst ...
University of Oregon study shows how the intestine’s nervous system affects gut microbes
Sometimes, a gut feeling is literal. Nerves in the intestines help regulate the gut’s acidity, new research from the University ...
How do pathogens learn to be pathogens: Partnerships between microbes leading to human disease
New research discovered that the fungus Rhizopus fights back against soil predators and human immune cells by partnering with a ...
Hibernating squirrels stay strong thanks to urea-salvaging gut microbes
The gut microbes of hibernating ground squirrels recycle urea to replenish crucial amino acids, allowing the mammals to survive long ...
Microbes help hibernating animals recycle nutrients, maintain muscle through winter
MADISON, Wis. — To get through a long winter without food, hibernating animals — like the 13-lined ground squirrel — ...
Microbes produce oxygen in the dark
There is more going on in the deep, dark ocean waters than you may think: Uncountable numbers of invisible microorganisms ...
Scientists from NTU Singapore and Harvard University develop smart and sustainable food packaging that keeps harmful microbes at bay
A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, US, ...
Strains — not species — of gut microbes hold key to health and disease
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—December 23, 2021—Every day, the billions of bacteria that inhabit your digestive system change; the food you eat, ...
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Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections responsible for spreading of COVID-19 less than symptomatic infections
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Harsher COVID-19 restrictions associated with faster “pandemic fatigue”
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University of Kentucky receives renewed $11.4 million grant to further cancer research
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Body weight influences the chance of developing Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
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Congratulations to the 2022 American Ornithological Society (AOS) award winners
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New survey illustrates challenges associated with healthcare environmental hygiene in facilities worldwide