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• Colorful Caves? Thank you, Bug Poop!

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 783
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Ant farmers use bacteria to make their gardens grow

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Germ alert: Attack of the killer necktie!

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 168
  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.
  6 days ago

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

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 161
  (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 ...
  1 week ago

• GIANTmicrobes Launched Seven New Microbes for Christmas Presents

  
  Nerdy Science Blog — Authority: 114
  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 , ...
  1 week ago

• Students send microbe experiment on space shuttle Atlantis

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Students Send Microbe Experiment on Space Shuttle Atlantis

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 617
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Odd Science: A Microbial Map of Your Skin

  
  voluntaryXchange — Authority: 136
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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