Snot-Like Microbes Help Carve Caves
Add so-called biofilms, or layers of sulfur-consuming bacteria, to the mix and the story gets more complex. Within just about a millimeter, multiple layers of microbes reside, each tucked into its own niche. The outer layer comprises microbes ... [... more]
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Louis Pasteur and the Hidden World of Microbes (Oxford ...
 Chronicling Louis Pasteur's rise from humble beginnings to international fame, Louis Pasteur and the Hidden World of Microbes investigates the complex life of a man who revolutionized our understanding of disease. Alongside Pasteur's pioneering work with ... [... more]
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The Air You Breathe Is Loaded With Microbes
The team detected relatives of Francisella tularensis, a naturally occurring bacterium that causes tularemia, also known as rabbit fever. Present in all U.S. states except Hawaii, the potent bacterium has been flagged as a potential bioterror ... [... more]
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Microbes Turned Into Drug Factories
The researchers set out to address the problems by manipulating the genome of an Escherichia coli bacteria strain able to produce several flavonoids, including pinocembrin -- a compound found in honey. When Koffas and his team inserted a handful ... [... more]
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This Machine Is Alive! Microscopic Motor Runs On Microbes
The researchers built circular pathways coated with sugary proteins, which the microbe needs to stick to in order to glide over surfaces. They then docked a rotor onto the track and coated the bacteria with vitamin B7, which acted like glue to ... [... more]
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Snot-Like Microbes Help Carve Caves
Add so-called biofilms, or layers of sulfur-consuming bacteria, to the mix and the story gets more complex. Within just about a millimeter, multiple layers of microbes reside, each tucked into its own niche. The outer layer comprises microbes ... [... more]
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Microbes In Sickness And In Health
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Rooting For Microbes
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Microbes In Action
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Stalking Microbes
Nothing so quickly threatens health than an infection, the interaction of a person with a microbe that favors the invading pathogen. Within hours the invisible predators can overwhelm the human host and cause devastating illness and death. The riveting ... [... more]
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Invisible Allies: Microbes That Shape Our Lives (Bccb ...
Mmm-mmm, microbes! Although we are accustomed to equating the presence of microbes with disease, in fact most microbes play a vital "friendly" role in shaping our lives. It is not just that one hundred million microbes can populate a thimbleful ... [... more]
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Killer Germs: Microbes and Diseases That Threaten Humanity
Everything readers ever wanted to know about deadly viruses, killer parasites, flesh-eating microbes, and other lifethreatening beasties but were afraid to ask What disease, known as "the White Death" has killed 2 billion people, and counting? ... [... more]
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