MSU group reviews Berkeley venture into brave new science funding world
EAST LANSING, Mich. When a big corporation acquired the research enterprise of an entire California university science department, it hoped it was sowing a bounty of discovery and profit. Instead, a new report indicates, it probably reaped more grief than it was worth. ......That is the greatest legacy of the nation's closely followed and much-debated marriage between University of California-Be...Lakes with zebra mussels have higher levels of toxins, MSU research finds
EAST LANSING, Mich. Inland lakes in Michigan that have been invaded by zebra mussels, an exotic species that has plagued bodies of water in several states since the 1980s, have higher levels of algae that produce a toxin that can be harmful to humans and animals, according to a Michigan State University researcher.... ......In a paper published in the recent issue of Limnology and Oceanography,...MSU study finds new microbial source of nitrogen fixation
...A team of scientists from Michigan State University has discovered a new and unusual source of nitrogen fixation, the process that converts the nitrogen in the atmosphere into a form that is used by all life on Earth.... ...In a paper published in the June 29 issue of the journal Science, MSU microbiologist John Breznak and colleagues report that spirochetes - corkscrew-shaped bacteria that a...Team led by MSU biologist finds bacteria deep in Antarctic ice
. BOZEMAN, MT--A team led by Montana State University biologist John Priscu has discovered.bacteria. in an ice core drilled from deep within a frozen Antarctic lake.. . The bacteria came from Lake Vostok, a subglacial body of water the size of Lake Ontario.resting. more than two miles under the East Antarctic ice cap.. . "From a biologist's perspective, this is the Holy Grail of lake biology,...by Annette Trinity-Stevens ...MSU Research Editor ...(406) 994-5607 .........BOZEMAN, MT--If bacteria could talk, their conversations might go something like...this: ... "Stay with us , in this nice place, and make slime or we'll all float...off and starve to death." Or, "It's too crowded here. Let's colonize somewhere...else." ... Bacteria, in fact, do speak a chemical language,...