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November 26, 2024

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Pandrug-Resistant Bacteria from the War in Ukraine Are Extremely Pathogenic

Nov. 25, 2024 — It has been a year ago since bacteria from war-wounded at hospitals in Ukraine were analyzed. The study showed that some of the bacteria types had total resistance to antibiotics. Now, the same researchers have examined the infectiousness of the ...

GPS System for Microorganisms Could Revolutionize Police Work

Nov. 7, 2024 — A research team developed an AI tool that traces back the most recent places you have been to. The tool acts like a satellite navigation system, but instead of guiding you to your hotel, it identifies the geographical source of microorganisms. This ...

Study of Mountaineering Mice Sheds Light on Evolutionary Adaptation

Nov. 8, 2024 — Highland deer mice and their lowland cousins ventured on a simulated seven-week ascent to 6,000 meters. By tracking how the mice responded to cold stress and progressively lower oxygen levels, the study tested whether deer mice have a generalized ...

Deep-Sea Corals Are Home to Previously Unknown Bacteria With Extremely Small Genomes

Nov. 4, 2024 — A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals have an extremely ...

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Algae Research Provides Insight on Immune Health

Oct. 30, 2024 — Marine animals like jellyfish, corals and sea anemones often live with algae inside their cells in a symbiotic relationship. The animals give the algae nutrients and a place to live; in return, algae ...

Newly Discovered Cyanobacteria Could Help Sequester Carbon from Oceans and Factories

Oct. 29, 2024 — What if a microbe could help curb the climate crisis? Meet UTEX-3222, aka 'Chonkus,' a cyanobacterium discovered living in the volcanic CO2 seeps off ...

Weddell Seals in the Antarctic Strategically Time Their Most Extreme Dives to Maximize Foraging

Oct. 29, 2024 — Weddell seals in Erebus Bay, Antarctica, may look like couch potatoes when they are resting on ice. However, these seals, which are the southernmost ...

A Lung Pathogen's Dilemma: Infect or Resist Antibiotics?

Oct. 25, 2024 — A new study reveals that the notorious bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa must balance between effectively colonizing human airways and developing antibiotic tolerance to ...

Researchers Use Cryo-EM to Identify What Makes Bacteria Strong

Oct. 24, 2024 — Researchers have identified the first high-resolution experimentally determined structure in proteins that helps them survive harsh conditions such as radiation, heat and even the vacuum of ...

Saving the Bats: Researchers Find Bacteria, Fungi on Bat Wings That Could Help Fight Deadly White-Nose Syndrome

Oct. 23, 2024 — Bacteria and fungi from the wings of bats could play a significant role in saving them from white-nose syndrome (WNS), a fungal disease affecting the ...

Over 160,000 New Viruses Discovered by AI

Oct. 9, 2024 — 161,979 new RNA viruses have been discovered using a machine learning tool that researchers believe will vastly improve the mapping of life on Earth and could aid in the identification of many ...

New Insights Into How Mars Became Uninhabitable

Oct. 7, 2024 — NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life -- with evidence for widespread ...

A Compost in the Sea That Produces Oxygen

Oct. 7, 2024 — Researchers studied the fate of the material produced by Posidonia seagrass meadows. This study, carried out in the Mediterranean Sea at STARESO, shows that the dead leaves of what is commonly known ...

Nanostructures in the Deep Ocean Floor Hint at Life's Origin

Sep. 25, 2024 — Researchers have discovered inorganic nanostructures surrounding deep-ocean hydrothermal vents that are strikingly similar to molecules that make life as we know it possible. These nanostructures are ...

Syrian Hamsters Reveal Genetic Secret to Hibernation

Sep. 30, 2024 — A gene that limits cellular damage could be the key to surviving prolonged cold ...

Deep-Sea Discovery Shines Light on Life in the Twilight Zone

Sep. 25, 2024 — A new study could change the way scientists view microbial processes in the deep ocean. The unexpected findings expand our understanding of the impacts of climate change, including how and where the ...

How the Oceans' Most Abundant Bacteria Impact Global Nutrient Flows

Sep. 11, 2024 — If you were to collect all the organisms from the ocean surface down to 200 meters, you'd find that SAR11 bacteria, though invisible to the naked eye, would make up a fifth of the total biomass. ...

With AI, Extreme Microbe Reveals How Life's Building Blocks Adapt to High Pressure

Sep. 9, 2024 — An assist from a Google Artificial Intelligence tool has helped scientists discover how the proteins of a heat-loving microbe respond to the crushing conditions of the planet's deepest ocean ...

Hijacking the Command Center of the Cell: Nuclear Parasites in Deep-Sea Mussels

Sep. 6, 2024 — Researchers now reveal how a bacterial parasite infects and reproduces in the nuclei of deep-sea mussels from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. They show how a single bacterial cell invades the ...

How Earth's Most Intense Heat Wave Ever Impacted Life in Antarctica

Sep. 4, 2024 — An atmospheric river brought warm, moist air to the coldest and driest corner of the planet in 2022, pushing temperatures 70 degrees above average. A new study reveals what happened to ...

Photosynthesis in Near Darkness

Sep. 4, 2024 — Photosynthesis can take place in nature even at extremely low light levels. This is the result of a study that investigated the development of Arctic microalgae at the end of the polar night. The ...

Bats Are Surviving and Thriving on Nothing but Sugar

Aug. 28, 2024 — New research may enable potential solutions to metabolic disease by turning to evolution and to bats. 'Our study reports blood sugar levels that are the highest we have ever seen in nature -- ...

Oxygen Produced in the Deep Sea Raises Questions About Extraterrestrial Life

Aug. 26, 2024 — Rocks are generating 'dark oxygen' in an area being explored for deep-sea ...

Bacteria in Lakes Fight Climate Change

Aug. 12, 2024 — Methane-oxidizing bacteria could play a greater role than previously thought in preventing the release of climate-damaging methane from lakes, researchers from Bremen report. They also show who is ...

The Race to Discover Biodiversity: 11 New Marine Species and a New Platform for Rapid Species Description

Aug. 6, 2024 — A new paper describes a ground-breaking experiment that united 25 independent taxonomists from 10 countries. The initiative boasts the discovery of 11 new marine species from all over the globe, ...

Ancient Antarctic Microorganisms Are Aggressive Predators

Aug. 2, 2024 — Antarctic dwelling single-celled microorganisms called archaea can behave like parasites, new research ...

Climate Change May Lead to Shifts in Vital Pacific Arctic Fisheries

Aug. 1, 2024 — Commercially important marine fish and invertebrate species will likely shift northwards under a warmer climate, according to new ...

New Groups of Methane-Producing Organisms in Yellowstone

July 24, 2024 — The team verified that microbes found in Yellowstone National Park hot springs produce methane to ...

Reef Pest Feasts on 'Sea Sawdust'

July 17, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered an under the sea phenomenon where coral-destroying crown-of-thorns starfish larvae have been feasting on blue-green algae bacteria known as 'sea ...

Discovery of a New Defense Mechanism in Bacteria

July 10, 2024 — When confronted with an antibiotic, toxic substance, or other source of considerable stress, bacteria are able to activate a defense mechanism using cell-to-cell communication to 'warn' ...

Researchers Listen to the Hearts of Bats in Flight

July 10, 2024 — Unique recordings show that bats can ramp up heart rate from 6 to 900 b.p.m within ...

New Way for Beneficial Microbes to Survive Extreme Conditions and Space Exploration

July 9, 2024 — Investigators sought to help figure out how to send materials like probiotics into space and to better treat a variety of gastrointestinal (GI) and metabolic diseases. The team's formulations ...

Study Reveals Environmental Impact of Artificial Sweeteners

July 8, 2024 — A recently published study demonstrates how sucralose affects the behavior of cyanobacteria -- an aquatic photosynthetic bacteria -- and diatoms, microscopic algae that account for more than 30% of ...

Engineers Find a Way to Protect Microbes from Extreme Conditions

July 5, 2024 — Researchers have now developed a new way to make microbes hardy enough to withstand extreme conditions such as heat and the manufacturing processes used to formulate the microbes into powders or ...