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How We Got The DNA From This Extremely Rare Ciliate
To study organisms at the genetic level, we need their DNA. Which means that we need to be able to wade through all the bits and pieces lying within their tiny bodies to pick out something even tinier—something we can’t just dig out with...
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Study shows microbes in our gut can impact our ability to gain or lose weight
A study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings shows certain types of bacteria in our gut may influence weight loss and weight gain.
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How to Identify Microbes
When there are over one trillion species, it can be hard to determine what you're looking at on your microscope. Thankfully we've got some helpful tips for you!
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Introduction to Microbes: Understanding the Broad Categories and Their Impact on Human Health
This video discusses the five major groups of microbes, including bacteria, fungi, protozoa, algae, and viruses. It provides examples of diseases caused by each group and emphasizes the importance of prevention and treatment measures....
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Water Is Thicker When You’re Smaller
Water Is Thicker When You’re Smaller
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These Algae Curl Up Into a Ball When They Get Stressed Out
These Algae Curl Up Into a Ball When They Get Stressed Out
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The Shared Doom of Microscopic Hitchhikers
Our oceans and lakes are filled with copepods, a myriad of small crustacean species that might float as plankton or infect other creatures1. And as they’re living in whatever manner best suits them, some copepods—like our friend...
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Scientists discover vast underground ecosystem of 'deep life' microbes
Deep life studies have revealed a rich subterranean ecosystem within the Earth almost twice the size of the world's oceans.
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How Brownian Motion Helped Prove the Existence of Atoms
We’re going to see a type of motion over and over again because it’s all over the microcosmos, found in and around many different types of organisms. And this kind of random motion may seem almost too trivial to discuss, but this motion...
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A Microscopic Tour Through A Norwegian Fjord
Sometimes our journey through the microcosmos feels like an expedition, a voyage filled with deep dives into the masses of organisms basking under the glow of our microscope. So what does it mean when you don’t find anything. When you...
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Getting to the Root of Nitrogen Fixation
James, our master of microscopes, is not a farmer. He is, to put it simply, fascinated by microbes. And that may lead him to strange places and cause him to grow tanks full of weird things. But he is not a farmer.
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The Microcosmos of the 1800s: The Story of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
The Microcosmos of the 1800s The Story of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
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Mystery of the Mojave - understanding nitrogen loss from desert soil
Available nitrogen is second only to water as the biggest constraint to biological activity in arid ecosystems, but ecologists have struggled to understand the balance of the input and output of nitrogen in deserts. However, researchers...
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The Mysteries of the Microbiome: There's Still a Lot to Learn
While we have long known about the existence of microbes - the tiny bacteria, fungi and archaea that live all around, on and in us - our full relationship has become one of the hottest topics for research only in recent years. That's the...
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Microbes as Biofertilisers
It describes the role of microbes as biofertilisers and the advantages of use of microbes over chemical fertilisers.
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The Complicated Relationships of the Microcosmos
The Complicated Relationships of the Microcosmos
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Dark patches on Venus could be signs of microbial life
A new study theorizes that the dark patches on Venus may be a sign that there's microbial life in the planet's lower atmosphere. According to a paper published in the journal Astrobiology, climate models suggest Venus had a habitable...
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Leeuwenhoek: The First Master of Microscopes
Leeuwenhoek: The First Master of Microscopes
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Extremophile Hunter
With support from the National Science Foundation, Astrobiologist Richard Hoover really goes to extremes to find living things that thrive where life would seem to be impossible--from the glaciers of the Alaskan Arctic to the ice sheets...
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Researchers tackle dangerous, but poorly understood biofilms - Science Nation
Syracuse University chemical engineer Dacheng Ren is leading a multidisciplinary team studying biofilms, which are colonies of microbes, such as bacteria, that grow together in a matrix produced by the cells themselves. Until now,...
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Microorganisms and Humans Commensal and Pathogenic Flora
Did you know that there are more microbes inside of you than there are cells that belong to your own body? There are tons of those critters all over the place! But don't freak out, most of them are actually helping you. They protect you...
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Mayan city had sophisticated water purification system
A team of researchers have found evidence that the Mayans had managed to build a sophisticated water purification system in Tikal — over 2,000 years ago. According to the lead researcher, Kenneth Tankersley of the University of...
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Human Defence Systems Against Pathogens
Human Defence Systems Against Pathogens | Health | Biology | FuseSchool Pathogens are disease causing microorganisms, that our body has many defence mechanisms against. The skin is the first physical barrier, providing a protective layer...