DELTA mission and ESA astronaut dock with ISS
...obiology experiment, SAMPLE, an investigation into bacteria on the ISS. Within the area of technology demonstration he will activate the HEAT experiment in the European-built Microgravity Science Glovebox; the aim is to test a heatpipe in space in order to develop more effective heatpipes for use in cooling ...Guiding gas exploration: U-M research offers inexpensive tool
...h temperatures, producing thermogenic gas, or when bacteria break down the organic matter and, through the pro... ice sheets made it possible for methane-producing bacteria to inhabit the shallow deposits, but also showed that methanogenesis has significantly changed water...Chlamydiae infection may be associated with ocular adnexal lymphoma
Infection with a species of bacteria in the same family as the bacteria that cause chlamydia may be associated with a form of lymphoma that affects the tissue surrounding t...Chicken litter harbors agents that generate antibiotic multi-resistance, according to UGA study
...ore than half a century. When antibiotic-resistant bacteria began to show up in hospitals in the 1950s, resear...listic because we share both pathogenic and benign bacteria with other humans and animals," said Summers, "and because bacteria transfer genes among themselves....Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...monella enterica to determine the life span of the bacteria in soils fertilized with the compounds as well as ...the contaminated soil. Researchers determined the bacteria stayed in soil samples for 203 to 231 days and for 84 to 203 days after radish and carrot seeds were...Hopkins Marine Station honored by the American Society for Microbiology
...ry. His research in the 1930s on photosynthesis in bacteria yielded new insights into the photosynthetic process and demonstrated the potential for microbiology as a unifying science for biochemistry, biophysics, evolution and plant physiology. Among those who attended Van Niel's summer course were Stanf...A new hypothesis about autoimmunity. Is it possible to be too clean?
...ystem is designed to recognize invading viruses or bacteria and destroy them. But in autoimmune diseases, the body's response is not limited to pathogens. Instead, the body manufactures cells and molecules that attack its own tissues and organs. This assault can have severe consequences for health and can be ...Florida Tech researchers win $912,700 grant for cell studies
...nhibitors--novel antibiotics--that would enter the bacteria and prevent critical switch components from comple...said Leonard. "Our work combines studies of living bacteria with biochemical studies of purified cellular components interacting in a test tube. Test tube stud...New proteomics core at OHSU will speed discovery process
...ling with a wide range of samples, everything from bacteria to humans." The term proteomics was coined in 1994 as an easy way to describe the concept of all proteins expressed by a genome, according to Bystrom. The term is now generally accepted to describe the cooperative use of a range of analytical tools ...Decoding a sulfate-breathing bug
...ites around the world. Such corrosion is caused by bacteria acting together in a biofilm that covers metal pip...nd the world who are studying the sulfate-reducing bacteria and their role in corrosion," says John Heidelberg, the TIGR assistant investigator who led the sequ...St. Jude researchers create image of enzyme that orchestrates natural genetic engineering
...hestrates a natural type of genetic engineering in bacteria provides important clues into how similar enzymes control the same process in human cells during DNA replication and repair. These findings from investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are published in the April issue of Structure . T...Biologist's find alters the bacteria family tree
The bacteria family tree may be facing some changes due to the ...is. And that may change our understanding of when bacteria and oxygen first appeared on earth. Carrine Blank, Ph.D. , assistant professor of earth and planetar...Scientists 'beef up' plant-dwelling bacteria to boost phytoremediation
...e process: transfer genes from pollutant-degrading bacteria into bacteria residing in the plants. They describe their proof-of-principle experiment, in which test plants inoc...Researchers find no safe place to sit in California tick-infested forest
... people are exposed to the ticks that transmit the bacteria in the first place," said Lane. "We intentionally ...an one day after the tick becomes attached for the bacteria to be transmitted to the host, so the sooner the tick is found and removed, the better," said Lane....Researchers caution against linking strep, neuropsychiatric disorders
...urported link between an infection caused by strep bacteria and the development of neuropsychiatric symptoms such as tics or obsessive-compulsive behavior. It's known as the PANDAS hypothesis Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infection (PANDAS). Some doctors suspec...Physics tip sheet #41 - April 5, 2004
...these unequal partnerships include nitrogen-fixing bacteria in legumes, and bioluminescent bacteria in squids and fish, among others. 5) Traffic jams in "model ketchup" Physical Review Letters (to ...Scripps research scientist wins 2004 Koch Prize
...innate immune system sends when it recognizes both bacteria and viruses. And recently, Beutler discovered rare genetic mutations in a subset of people who come down with a kind of severe sepsis, an acute and often deadly disease. A graduate of the University of California, San Diego, Beutler received h...City rain run-off poses threat to coastal water users
... used local health department data to get coliform bacteria counts, a water pollution measure. Santa Cruz County had higher total rainfall each year compared to North Orange County, yet the latter had higher water coliform counts. As it happened, California experienced record high precipitation in the winter...Scientists seek cause for what makes good cell go bad
...ell locomotion. "We studied this simple system in bacteria as a model system for the general study of signal ...archers found that they could affect how often the bacteria switched their direction of motion by altering the concentration of a key protein in its signal tran......s, some 20 billion bytes per week, and shipping of bacteria culture plates from the JGIs Production Genomics Facility in Walnut Creek, California, to Stanford. To get this level of confidence several iterations of the genome sequence is required, typically at six to eight times coverage, Myers said. In areas...