Experts: Public Will Accept Irradiation In Wake Of Meat Recall
...s, that may have been contaminated with E. coli, a microorganism that can cause illness and even death in those who consume it. A 1993 E. coli outbreak in the Pacific Northwest, in which hundreds of people were sickened and half a dozen children died, still lingers in people's memories. Food-borne illnesses are n...Early Career Development Grants Foster Faculty Research And Education
...gatethe theoretical prediction that evolution in a microorganism which initially causes disease should eventually allow it to assist rather than weaken its host - a relationship termed "symbiosis." The research, using fruit flies,may provide important insights into the reproductive success, behavior and genetic d...Detective Work Uncovers New Tick-Borne Disease In North Carolina And The Southeast
...th Carolina. But the CDC was unable to isolate the microorganism thatcauses Lyme disease from skin samples taken from 70 southern patients. So the question Kirkland wanted to answer was: Is a different kind oftick carrying Lyme disease? And, if not, what sort of disorder is this? First, the easy part. The ticks ...Scientists Seek Early Warning Of Drinking Water Threats
... the past decade? "Cryptosporidium is not the only microorganism of concern in drinking water,"says Battigelli. "Although crypto has been the industry buzzword since 1993, weare finding other microorganisms which may also pose substantial risks to publichealth if left unaddressed." There is reason to suspect a "ne...... in the cell walls of the salt-loving microorganism Halobacterium salinarum, can be prepared in selectively isotope-labeled forms. In addition to neutron diffraction (Journal of Molecular Biology 1989, 210, 829-847) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) investigations (Journal...Alaska Natives Provide New Evidence Linking Common Infection To Heart Disease
...he pneumonia cases in adults. It is related to the microorganism that causes the sexually transmitted diseasecommonly called chlamydia, but C. pneumoniae is spread when an infected personcoughs -- not by sexual contact. The researchers are continuing their studies in other populations todetermine how the ......d Saccharomyces yeast, is an environmentally safe microorganism commonly used by industry to ferment glucose into...usly to ethanol, a property that no other natural microorganism has," Ho says. "This is important for the industrial production of ethanol, because it takes less t...Scientists Describe Structure Of An Enzyme That Uses Iron To Make Hydrogen
...uctureof an enzyme known as CpI, found in the soil microorganism Clostridiumpasteurianum. The results of their research on the structure and function ofCpI are published in the December 4 issue of the journal Science. CpI is a hydrogenase, a type of enzyme used by microorganisms to makemolecular hydrogen ...Aircraft De-Icers Hold A Hidden Hazard
...lla decided to isolate thetoxic component. Using a microorganism test, he identified the culprit as afamily of chemicals called tolyltriazoles, which are also used as corrosioninhibitors in car antifreeze. Cancilla has since found tolyltriazoles in the groundwater beneath anairport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...Tracks in iron provide an insightful map of microbial world
...mass differencesare small, but large enough that a microorganism could have made thedifference." Isotopes from sedimentary rock, says Beard, match the isotopic signature of ironingested and metabolized by bacteria in the lab: "What we found in thebiological experiments was that microbes produce a measurable iron i......hey would eat less locallyharvested seafood if the microorganism had been reported in their state waters. To gauge public perceptions and attitudes related to Pfiesteria, Falkmailed a four-page, 30-question survey to residents of Delaware, Maryland,Virginia, North Carolina, New Jersey and New York--states most v...Virginia Tech microbe-minerals group launches new field of study
...inerals, and that the diversityand distribution of microorganism on earth is at least in part due to thedynamic geochemistry of mineral surfaces," says Hochella. "Thousands of mineralswith enormous variability in surface chemistry and structure interact with anyof an unimaginable number of microbial species; yet, ......n limiting how deep extremophiles can go. No known microorganism can live for long at 120 degrees Celsius. Since the surface temperature averages 15 degrees Celsius and the temperature in the ground increases with depth about 19 degrees Celsius every kilometer, extremophiles should die off between five and six kil...Evolutionary implications: myoglobin-like proteins found in ancient microorganisms
...ed. The newly discovered proteins from the ancient microorganism Halobacterium salinarum and the more widely known bacterium Bacillus subtilis share similar properties. These proteins help sense oxygen, allowing the organism to find a more favorable oxygen environment. "These proteins may help to understand how s......Gandour. The Buckman Lab specializes in industrial microorganism control. "We don't produce human medicines or products, but we do screen many compounds," explains Bryant. "We screened compounds provided by Dr. Gandours group for microbial activity, specifically against Candida (yeast infections)." The lab is also...Bees deliver fungicide more effectively than sprays, study finds
...ed with the fungicide - composed of an anti-fungal microorganism - in front of bee hives. The bees walk through thi... cineria, was a commercially available strain of a microorganism called Trichoderma harzarium 1295-22. The study was conducted from 1994 to 1997, using commercial bu...International research group led by UMass scientist sequences genome of ubiquitous microbe
...of Halobacterium species NRC-1, an "extremophilic" microorganism that grows best in an environment 10 times saltier than sea water. The achievement will be published in the Oct. 3 edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). DasSarma and Hood led a consortium of researchers...When Shewanella meets goethite: Evidence found of recognition between animate and inanimate objects
...ed it to determine what happens when Shewanella, a microorganism found in most soils, meets goethite, the most important iron oxide in soils worldwide. The research provides some of the first evidence of recognition between a living organism and an inanimate object such as a mineral. The research will be feat...Stanford scientists to probe inner workings of remarkable microbe
...ved a $2.5 million federal grant to study one such microorganism - the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus, which scie...n opportunity to study the cellular biology of the microorganism in its natural environment,`` Spormann concluded. ``It lets us see what the microbe is `thinking.```......s as friendly to life as early Earth. But could a microorganism really have survived the trip from Earth to Mars? To successfully complete the interplanetary journey, a microbe first would have to survive an asteroid impact powerful enough to free a chunk of rock from the grip of gravity. Once in space, the trave...