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Geotimes December 2005 Naomi Lubick	Slushball Life Hundreds of millions of years ago, a carapace of ice may have periodically covered the entire planet. New research, however, indicates that microbes seem to have thrived in certain places that they should not have during that time, leading scientists to conclude that the snowball was more slushy than frozen solid.
Chemistry World February 11, 2011 Philippa Ross	Breakthrough for bacterial hydrogen production Scientists in China have developed a device that can produce hydrogen from organic materials using bacteria at temperatures below 25 degrees Celsius.
Chemistry World August 15, 2008	Arsenic-Loving Bacteria Rewrite Photosynthesis Rules Bacteria that photosynthesise using compounds of arsenic, rather than water, have been discovered in Mono Lake, California.
Chemistry World November 28, 2014 Matthew Gunther	DNA survives extreme heat of rocket re-entry DNA can survive the extreme conditions of sub-orbital spaceflight and re-entry.
Popular Mechanics December 16, 2008 Matthew Hutson	5 Projects Ask if Life on Earth Began as Alien Life in Space For years, scientists have considered the possibility of exogenesis, the idea that life arrived on Earth from another planet, and not just the building blocks of life, but organisms that were ready to rock and roll when they arrived.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Virginia Hughes	Dianne Newman: Connecting Cultures Medical and environmental microbiologists have separate scientific cultures, but the same he same methods geochemists apply to sediments and ice cores can be tweaked for cells, tissues, and organs.
Chemistry World November 15, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Bacteria turn carbon dioxide into fuel US researchers have genetically modified bacteria to eat carbon dioxide and produce isobutyraldehyde - a precursor to several useful chemicals, including isobutanol, which has great potential as a fuel alternative to petrol.
Geotimes July 2007 Megan Sever	La Brea Yields Oil-Eating Bacteria Fossils are not the only surprises hidden in the Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, Calif. Researchers have recently discovered entire new families of bacteria happily living in the toxic asphalt.
Chemistry World December 4, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Potent two-pronged antibiotic provides hope for future drugs A two-headed compound obtained from soil bacteria may hold the key to developing the next generation of antibiotics, researchers in the UK report.
Chemistry World February 19, 2013 Ian Farrell	Analyzing bacterial metabolites A mass-spectrometry technique that can characterize and spatially resolve the metabolites produced by bacteria could lead to a better understanding of how different microbes interact with each other, and how their chemistry could be harnessed industrially.
Chemistry World December 3, 2010 Mike Brown	Arsenic sustains life A microorganism that uses the toxic element arsenic instead of essential nutrient phosphorus to sustain growth and life has been discovered by US researchers and could help us understand how life on Earth evolved.
Scientific American August 2008 Nikhil Swaminathan et al.	News Scan Briefs: Iron-Tough Paper; DEET-free Repellent; Artificial Corneas Reconstructing the Very First Cell... DEET Beaters... Iron-Tough Paper... etc.
Chemistry World April 3, 2008 Philip Ball	Antibiotic-Eating Bacteria Found in Soil Scientists in the US have found that soil is full of bacteria that will feed and grow on antibiotics the very compounds created to kill them.
Bio-IT World January 21, 2005 Mark D. Uehling	How to Find a New TB Drug Scientists at Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) have announced the first novel class of antibiotics in 40 years. The diarylquinolines, as the new compounds will be known, could offer shorter treatment regimens and be a precise weapon against tuberculosis.
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Data stored in live cells Every type of storage media -- from stone to paper to magnetic disks -- is subject to destruction. Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are tapping forces of nature to store information more permanently.
Geotimes April 2004	Early volcanic living? Microbes thrive in unexpected places, including seafloor hotspots, where energy and nutrients from hydrothermal vents or volcanic activity make life easy.
Chemistry World October 7, 2015 Matthew Gunther	DNA repair research takes the 2015 chemistry Nobel The 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for unraveling how cells deal with DNA damage.
Chemistry World August 31, 2012 Simon Hadlington	'Ocean methane paradox' solved? Numerical simulation of methane production by methanogenic microorganisms suggests that up to 400 billion tonnes of methane could be sitting under the ice. If the ice sheet collapses due to a warming climate, this could release the gas, which in turn would increase warming, the researchers say.
Popular Mechanics September 2006	Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams	Gut Bacteria Do More Than Digest Food Someone can blame their diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease on the churning mass of bacteria that lives inside their intestines, but there's no magic pill to change the dynamics of that complicated world of the human microbiome.
Geotimes September 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Microbes Act as Alchemists Placed in a solution of toxic gold and chloride, some microbes can take elemental gold and transform it into a nontoxic solid clump of gold -- a trick that might help the microbe survive in seemingly inhospitable environments.
Chemistry World February 27, 2013 Anthony King	PharmaSea to scour ocean depths for new drugs A new project will soon see scientists trawling the ocean bottoms for new bioactive compounds. Scientists on the PharmaSea mission will haul samples of mud and sediment from the deep sea, isolating marine organisms in the hunt for novel drug candidates.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams	A Study on Antibiotic Resistance Shows That Bacteria Aren't Just Out To Help Themselves Microbes that are resistant to the drug protect their weaker kin in the colony, HHMI researchers have found. The discovery upends traditional notions of antibiotic resistance and offers a target for new drugs against bacterial infections.
Chemistry World June 30, 2011 Laura Howes	Chemically evolved bacteria European scientists have created an Escherichia coli strain with a separate genome using chlorinated DNA.
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Chemistry World September 11, 2013 Andria Nicodemou	Bacteria incriminated by their odor Researchers in Taiwan and the US have developed a device that uses the volatile organic compounds released by bacteria to identify the bacteria as they are cultured.
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Chemistry World March 18, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Dried lake bed on Mars 'could have supported life' New chemical analysis by the Mars rover Curiosity suggests that Mars was once more hospitable to life.
Fast Company Peter Andrey Smith	Meet Dr. Armpit, Changing Body Odor With Bacteria "Everybody now gets rid of their bacteria in order to prevent odor," he told me, "but maybe the solution all along is just to have bacteria there -- good bacteria."
Chemistry World April 10, 2008 Henry Nicholls	Water Retains DNA Memory of Hidden Species A team of scientists has demonstrated that DNA profiling could be a quick, effective and relatively cheap alternative to finding new species of animal life.
Scientific American June 2008 Melinda Wenner	Jeremy Nicholson's Gut Instincts: Researching Intestinal Bacteria The body and its intestinal flora produce chemicals with hidden health information, Jeremy Nicholson has found. Someday treating disease may mean treating those bacteria.
Food Processing August 2013 Claudia O'Donnell	Probiotics - From Weight Management to Survival Skills New studies look at gut microbiota and obesity, while probiotic viability remains a goal.
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Chemistry World July 9, 2009 Andy Extance	Detailed crystal structure raises antibiotic hopes Scientists at King's College London and St. George's, University of London, have shown exactly how quinolones, which are the second line of defense against diseases like pneumonia and meningitis, interact with their topoisomerase IV enzyme target.
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Chemistry World July 16, 2009 James Urquhart	New DNA technique sheds light on ancient populations A new sequencing technique that is cheaper and less wasteful has been used to decode and analyse the mitochondrial genomes of five Neanderthal individuals.
Chemistry World January 10, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Antibiotic decay products reverse resistance In a colony of bacteria living in the presence of an antibiotic in natural environments, individuals that are sensitive to the antibiotic can co-exist with those that are resistant, whereas logic would dictate that only resistant bacteria should survive.
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Chemistry World May 2, 2006	Chilling Warnings on Receding Permafrost The annual loss of around 1% of the world's permafrost areas will trigger the release of more greenhouse gases, starting a vicious circle that could make global warming even worse than anticipated, scientists recently warned.
Chemistry World December 20, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Blame it on the Bacteria The bacteria in human guts could be partially responsible for obesity, report US researchers.
Chemistry World July 3, 2007 Michael Gross	Virulence from the deep sea Life surrounding hydrothermal vents and hot springs in the deep sea relies on chemosynthetic bacteria. Now, genome sequences of two of these symbionts have revealed surprising similarities with common bacterial pathogens of humans, including Helicobacter and Campylobacter.
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