microbe

Welcome to the 'microbe' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'microbe'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “microbe”

• ZeaChem gets $25M from DOE to make fuel from trees (via postie)

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Bookmark this categoryWith the aid of a microbe found in termites and $25 million in DOE grants awarded today, ZeaChem is proposing to build a trial sized biofuels refinery in Boardman, Ore. A hundred and 50 miles east of Portland, on the Columbia river, the Boardman facility would convert poplar hybrid trees into ...
  3 days ago

• Mario & Luigi Bowser’s Inside Story

  
  video game reviews — Authority: 151
  RPG gameplay in which players work their way through challenges they can level characters up with experience points. Two separate storylines, one featuring Bowser as a playable character, and the other revolving around the microbe-sized Mario, Luigi and Peach. Integrated gameplay action which the player toggles ...
  4 days ago

• Bacteria plays an important role in a plant’s immunity

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Nov 28 (IANS) When it comes to plants’ innate immunity, bacteria play a vital role, according to researchers.A receptor molecule in the plant pairs up with a specific molecule on the invading bacteria and, presto, the immune system swings into action to defend against the invasion of the disease-causing ...
  1 week ago

• Only £9.00 for Global Secret Santa (Send A Giant Microbe) - Novelty Gifts

  
  My Bloggerings — Authority: 161
  £9.00 Info / Buy Product Information Fancy playing Secret Santa? Course you do. But why waste time trading tat with the office dork when you can go global and help Firebox set a NEW WORLD RECORD for the biggest Secret Santa in history! Firebox ...
  1 week ago

• Colorful Caves? Thank you, Bug Poop!

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 772
  Scientists have always thought that colorful mineral deposits in caves are the work of geology, not biology – but they were wrong: unusual deposits may actually be microbial poop! "We’re finding that you need to look at things you might write off as not being biological—they might be biological," said ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ant farmers use bacteria to make their gardens grow

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, November 20 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have found that ant farmers, like their human counterparts, depend on nitrogen-fixing bacteria to make their gardens grow. The finding documents a previously unknown symbiosis between ants and bacteria and provides insight into how leaf-cutter ants have come ...
  2 weeks ago

• Germ alert: Attack of the killer necktie!

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  As the medical community debates whether to remove neckties from hospitals to prevent the spread of superbugs that claim thousands of lives annually, a microbe-thwarting tie is born.
  2 weeks ago

• On the trail of a vaccine for Lyme disease: Yale researchers tar...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 159
  (Yale University) A protein found in the saliva of ticks helps protect mice from developing Lyme disease, Yale researchers have discovered. The findings, published in the Nov. 19 issue of Cell Host & Microbe, may spur development of a new vaccine against infection from Lyme disease, which is spread through tick ...
  2 weeks ago

• GIANTmicrobes Launched Seven New Microbes for Christmas Presents

  
  Nerdy Science Blog — Authority: 104
  Getting Christmas presents for your scientist colleagues may be a hard decision-making process.  You are not only need to be creative, but also need to have intellectual humorous includes in your gifts. GIANTmicrobes has just launched seven brand new microbes, which include brain cell , nerve cell , platelet , ...
  3 weeks ago

• Students send microbe experiment on space shuttle Atlantis

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, November 14 (ANI): An experiment by college students that will study how microbes grow in microgravity is heading to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis.Undergraduate and graduate students at Texas Southern University in Houston developed the experiment that will fly as part of the STS-129 mission. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Students Send Microbe Experiment on Space Shuttle Atlantis

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 583
  An experiment by college students that will study how microbes grow in microgravity is heading to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis.Undergraduate and graduate students at Texas Southern University in Houston developed the experiment that will fly as part of the STS-129 mission. The mission is scheduled to launch at ...
  3 weeks ago

• Odd Science: A Microbial Map of Your Skin

  
  voluntaryXchange — Authority: 133
  I think this a map of the flora on your skin is potentially really useful, but it also leads to lines like this: … Your mouth is more like my mouth than it is like your armpit … One conclusion of the exercise was that the oils on your skin deter microbial colonization and growth. Do you think this ...
  4 weeks ago

Comments about microbe