All Articles Tagged As: microbes

Wielding microbe against microbe, beetle defends its food source (10/6/2008)

Pine beetle escalates biological warfare with mites by employing additional microbes to defend itself. ...> Full Article

Study Reveals an Oily Diet for Subsurface Life (10/1/2008)

Microbes are dining on thousands of compounds that make up the oil seeping from the sea floor ...> Full Article

As Andean glacier retreats, tiny life forms swiftly move in (9/10/2008)

Study has implications for how life might have once flourished on Mars ...> Full Article

90 billion tons of microbial organisms live in the deep biosphere (7/22/2008)

The microcosm in the seafloor ...> Full Article

New research shows how marine organisms help oceans sequester carbon (6/10/2008)

Scientists have identified a process by which marine organisms influence the amount of atmospheric carbon the sea absorbs. ...> Full Article

What makes life go at the tropics? (5/28/2008)

Study points to heat, not light, as engine driving biodiversity ...> Full Article

Scientists fathom ecological niches of ocean microbes (5/25/2008)

Marine bacteria in the wild organize into professions or lifestyle groups that partition many resources, rather than competing for them, so that microbes with one lifestyle, such as free-floating cells, flourish in proximity with closely related microbes that may spend life attached to zooplankton or algae. ...> Full Article

Partnerships of Deep-Sea Methane Scavengers Revealed (5/13/2008)

The sea floor off the coast of Eureka, California, is home to a diverse assemblage of microbes that scavenge methane from cold deep-sea vents. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a technique to directly capture these cells, lending insight into the diverse symbiotic partnerships that evolved among different species in an extreme environment. ...> Full Article

New Window Opens on the Secret Life of Microbes: Scientists Develop First Microbial Profiles of Ecosystems (3/16/2008)

Microbial profiles serve as the ecological version of the human genome project ...> Full Article

Studies on extremophiles fruitful (2/25/2008)

With the support of the Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), researchers from the CAS Institute of Microbiology (IOM) started a 5-million-yuan three-year research project on life in extreme conditions one year ago. Now the studies are making encouraging progress, announced the annual conference of the project held on 21 January in Beijing. ...> Full Article

Extremophile Hunt Begins In Strange Antarctic Lake (2/17/2008)

A team of scientists has just left the country to explore a very strange lake in Antarctica; it is filled with, essentially, extra-strength laundry detergent. No, the researchers haven't spilled coffee on their lab coats. They are hunting for extremophiles -- tough little creatures that thrive in conditions too extreme for most other living things. ...> Full Article