News articles tagged with 'microbe'
UCLA researchers engineer E. coli to produce record-setting amounts of alternative fuel
— 17 Mar 2011 18:54 | EnvironmentResearchers at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a way to produce normal butanol - often proposed as a 'greener' fuel alternative to diesel…
BESC scores a first with isobutanol directly from cellulose
— 8 Mar 2011 13:59 | ChemistryIn the quest for inexpensive biofuels, cellulose proved no match for a bioprocessing strategy and genetically engineered microbe developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's…
Turning bacteria into butanol biofuel factories
— 3 Mar 2011 12:53 | EnvironmentUniversity of California, Berkeley, chemists have engineered bacteria to churn out a gasoline-like biofuel at about 10 times the rate of competing microbes, a breakthrough that could…
This microbe's for you: Brewery waste becomes scientific fodder for producing liquid biofuels
— 28 Feb 2011 16:24 | EnvironmentGaining new insight into how efficiently the microbes in large bioreactors produce methane from brewery waste, Cornell scientists hope to use their new knowledge to shape these microbial…
More deep-sea vents discovered
— 15 Feb 2011 16:12 | EnvironmentScientists aboard the Royal Research Ship James Cook have discovered a new set of deep-sea volcanic vents in the chilly waters of the Southern Ocean. The discovery is the fourth made…
Choosing your neighbours: MBL scientists see how microbes relate in space
— 15 Feb 2011 16:03 | BiologyLike people in cities, microbes often live in complex communities that contain many different microbial types. Also like us, microbes tend to gravitate to and 'hang out' with certain…
Study finds massive flux of gas, in addition to liquid oil, at BP well blowout in Gulf
— 13 Feb 2011 21:13 | EnvironmentA new University of Georgia study that is the first to examine comprehensively the magnitude of hydrocarbon gases released during the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil discharge…
Earth's life support systems discussed in an open-access special issue
— 3 Feb 2011 16:51 | EnvironmentIn the search for life on Mars or any planet, there is much more than the presence of carbon and oxygen to consider. Using Earth's biogeochemical cycles as a reference point, elements…
Analysis of bread mould genomes demos 'reverse-ecology' tool
— 1 Feb 2011 20:18 | BiologyIn a demonstration of 'reverse-ecology,' biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that one can determine an organism's adaptive traits by looking first at its…
New findings show how bacteria undergo genome evolution
— 28 Jan 2011 17:15 | BiologyScientists at the Institut Pasteur and the University of Maryland have revealed how bacterial and archaea microbes successfully evolve their gene repertoires to face new challenges,…