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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.   |
Chemistry World
April 16, 2009
Jon Cartwright |
Isolated microbes survive for millions of years Researchers in the US and the UK have found microbes in the Antarctic that appear to have survived in isolation, without sunlight or new supplies of nutrients, for more than a million years. |
Chemistry World
August 28, 2007
Tom Westgate |
Repairing DNA Could Let Frozen Bacteria Survive for Millennia An international team of scientists believe they have strong evidence that bacteria trapped in permafrost are able to survive for hundreds of thousands of years by repairing their DNA. |
Chemistry World
September 22, 2010
Manisha Lalloo |
Salmonella's secret weapon US researchers have explained the chemical trick behind Salmonella bacteria's ability to outgrow other microbes living in the gut. The findings could lead to new drug treatments for the bacterial infection. |
Chemistry World
February 24, 2010
Hayley Birch |
Marine microbes wired up A new study provides evidence for the existence of naturally occurring electric circuits orchestrated by marine bacteria. |
Scientific American
November 14, 2005
Gunjan Sinha |
Bugs and Drugs Gut bacteria could determine how well medicines work. |
Chemistry World
February 29, 2012
Elinor Richards |
Can arsenic bind to bacterial DNA? Scientists from the US and China say that arsenic substituted DNA may be more stable than first thought. |
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
October 14, 2013
Amy Middleton-Gear |
Bioluminescence powers photosynthesis Chinese chemists report that, in the absence of sunlight, bioluminescence can drive photosynthesis. |
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
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. |
Chemistry World
March 15, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Age of Photosynthesis Questioned Photosynthesis could have been flourishing on Earth nearly a billion years earlier than previously thought, according to a study by American geochemists. |
Chemistry World
February 13, 2015
Tim Wogan |
GM bacteria convert solar energy to liquid fuels A new scheme for storing the energy from photovoltaic cells, in which genetically modified bacteria reduce carbon dioxide to liquid fuels with hydrogen from water-splitting, has been proposed and partially demonstrated. |
Chemistry World
September 12, 2006
Mark Peplow |
Bacteria Silenced by Conversation Stoppers Molecules that interrupt the chemical conversations of bacterial communities are showing early promise in beating the bugs. |
Chemistry World
July 21, 2006
Maria Burke |
Sourcing Bangladesh's Arsenic Arsenic contaminates millions of people's drinking water in West Bengal and Bangladesh, but scientists now think they might have figured out how the toxic element gets into the water in the first place. |
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. |
Reactive Reports
November 2007
David Bradley |
Barking Up the Right Tree for Fresh Breath A traditional Chinese extract from the bark of the magnolia tree could give you fresh breath and kill off the oral microbes that cause halitosis claims scientists at gum manufacturer Wm Wrigley Jr. |
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. |
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." |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2011
Dave Levitan |
Prospects for an Artificial Leaf Are Growing Scientists design artificial photosynthesis devices that could make hydrogen or other fuels |
Industrial Physicist
Eric J. Lerner |
News New ways to create circuits and other patterns at nanometer scales... Blackout clears the air... Fighting big blackouts... Bacteria stir things up... |
Chemistry World
January 28, 2011
Emma Shiells |
Eliminating arsenic from drinking water An iron-rich, porous material can remove arsenic from drinking water in under two hours, say Chinese scientists. |
