Posts Tagged ‘bacteria’
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

Two UCSF researchers are trying to discover what trillions of microorganisms are doing in our guts.
Tags: bacteria, gut, joe derisi, microbes, microorganisms, ucsf, viruses
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011

Don’t they know they’re supposed to be carnivores?
Tags: bacteria, bamboo, carnivore, herbivore, microbes, pandas
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Joining the astronauts in space are squid, worms and microbes, oh my!
Tags: bacteria, C. elegans, cephalopods, Endeavour, microbes, nasa, space shuttle, squid, worms
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011

Scientists debate whether deepwater drilling for oil is worth the risk.
Tags: arctic, bacteria, deepwater, gulf of mexico, lawrence berkeley, microbes, oil, oil drilling, oil spill
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

The bacteria in our guts may influence our behavior and emotions.
Tags: bacteria, behavior, brain, e. coli, emotions, gut, mice, mouse, research
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Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Meet amoebae that farm bacteria. Really.
Tags: amoeba, bacteria, Dictyostelium discoideum, farming, spores
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Friday, January 7th, 2011

Massive Die-Offs, Oil and DNA Sequencing: 2011 started off with a bang—science news-wise.
Tags: bacteria, birds, dna, eclipse, fish, gulf of mexico, jack dumbacher, methane, microbes, oceans, oil spill, sequencing, solar, usgs
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Thursday, December 30th, 2010

2010 was a roller coaster year for science news—think exoplanets, synthetic-life, arsenic-eating bacteria (or not!), earthquakes, volcanoes and of course, the Gulf oil spill.
Tags: alternative energy, arsenic, astronomy, bacteria, bats, bedbugs, biodiversity, brain, census, cern, dna, earthquake, electric, eruption, exoplanets, Eyjafjallajökull, falcon 9, genome, graphene, gulf of mexico, hubble, insects, jupiter, kepler, lhc, marine life, microbes, moon, mosquitoes, multiverse, nasa, neanderthal, noaa, oceans, oil spill, renewables, roof, saturn, solar, solar system, synthetic, uc berkeley, universe, volcano, wormholes
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

A bacterium that incorporates arsenic into its DNA? Holy #&*@!
Tags: arsenic, astrobiology, bacteria, Mono Lake, nasa, phosphorus
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

The loss of a species, from beneficial bacteria to charismatic mammals, can be devastating to the planet, and, according to a new study, harmful to human health.
Tags: bacteria, biodiversity, disease, human, pathogens, viruses
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