News articles tagged with 'cyanobacteria'
Self-destructing bacteria improve renewable biofuel production
— 8 Dec 2009 09:13 | TechnologyAn Arizona State University research team has developed a process that removes a key obstacle to producing lower-cost, renewable biofuels. The team has programmed a photosynthetic microbe…
New drugs faster from natural compounds: A UC San Diego breakthrough
— 14 Jul 2009 15:03 | HealthResearchers have invented computational tools to decode and rapidly determine whether natural compounds collected in oceans and forests are new - or if these pharmaceutically promising…
Phytoplankton cell membranes challenge fundamentals of biochemistry
— 2 Feb 2009 18:34 | BiologyGet ready to send the biology textbooks back to the printer. In a new paper published in Nature, Benjamin Van Mooy, a geochemist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)…
Life on Earth got bigger in 2-million-fold leaps
— 23 Dec 2008 15:24 | Geology and palaeontologyExtremes are exciting. Does anyone really think dinosaurs would capture our imagination the way they do if they hadn't been so huge? You don't see natural history museums vying for…
Microbe may play important role in ocean ecology
— 14 Nov 2008 20:34 | BiologyAn unusual microorganism discovered in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems. A research team…
Mysterious microbe plays important role in ocean ecology
— 14 Nov 2008 19:24 | BiologyAn unusual microorganism discovered in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems. A paper describing…
New threat for coral reefs in the tropics
— 4 Sep 2008 20:31 | EnvironmentHuman activities bear a large part of the responsibility for coral reef degradation. Several threats hang over this complex ecosystem with its extraordinary biodiversity, whether in…
Clean energy's future lies in 'big bang' of evolution
— 25 Aug 2008 13:42 | EnvironmentAmid mounting agreement that future clean, 'carbon-neutral,' energy will rely on efficient conversion of the sun's light energy into fuels and electric power, attention is focusing…
Scientists find cancer-inhibiting compound under the sea
— 8 Aug 2008 16:16 | HealthUniversity of Florida College of Pharmacy researchers have discovered a marine compound off the coast of Key Largo that inhibits cancer cell growth in laboratory tests, a finding they…
Saharan dust storms sustain life in Atlantic Ocean
— 18 Jul 2008 12:56 | EnvironmentResearch at the University of Liverpool has found how Saharan dust storms help sustain life over extensive regions of the North Atlantic Ocean. Working aboard research vessels in the…