Sanitizing homes gets rids of bacteria but makes room for fungi
Urban homes are artificial environments that foster fungi development.
Tag: microbes
Molecules in mucus subdue microbes to make them harmless
Mucus contains sugars that can interfere with bacteria’s communication and behavior, a new study found.
“Farm air” can protect children from asthma
Farm microbes could help reduce asthma risk.
Researchers, at long last, develop effective tool to study soil-borne microbes
Surprisingly, it was easier for us to go to the Moon than to develop such a tool.
Study proposes five new rules to prevent antibiotic resistance “disaster”
Appear weak where you are strong. Appear strong where you are weak. Show "humility in the face of natural selection."
New deep-water microbes have the skills to help fight climate change
Unexpected but not unwelcome!
Researchers create the first antimicrobial medical examination gloves
Getting the upper hand against germs.
Plants learned how to fight microbes even before they moved to dry land
Although their evolutionary paths diverged very early on, liverworts and other plants use similar proteins to fight off molds.
Copper-coated uniforms for medical staff could help shred bacteria in hospitals
It's a pretty metal solution.
The Search for Alien Life: We Have Been Looking in the Wrong Places
If there are any, aliens should be less conspicuous and charismatic-looking than most people think.
Blood DNA sequencing reveals there’s a lot more microbes living inside you — and we’ve never seen over 99% of them before
What we don't know can't hurt us, right? Right? Guys?..
What is antibiotic resistance: everything you need to know
Antibiotic resistance is threatening to undo a centuy's worth of medical progress.
Fracking-only bacteria discovered in two separate wells hundreds of miles apart
Bacteria are creating whole new ecosystems in fracking wells.
Each city might have its own, unique microbes
Each city has its own distinct germ cloud comprised of a unique microbial population and distribution, according to scientists at ...
Kabuno Bay microbes shed light on how iron deposits are formed
An isolated bay in the heart of East Africa offers scientists a glimpse into early Earth's iron-rich marine environment, and ...
How many germs you can find in your home: about 9,000 different species
After they analyzed dust samples collected from 1,200 US households, researchers at University of Colorado at Boulder identified over 9,000 ...
Ancient billion-year-old water pocket discovered beneath Canadian mine may reveal how life formed
Buried deep at some 2.4 kilometers beneath the surface, in the vicinity of an underground mine near Ontario, Canada, scientists have stumbled ...
Microbes found in subglacial Antarctic lake suggest extraterrestrial life is possible
Underneath hundreds of meters of Antarctic ice lie a slew of lakes, completely isolated from the outside world, some for ...
Newly discovered microbial lifeforms form ‘electrical cables’ on deep-sea floor
In an extremely exciting find, scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark found a type of bacteria that creates electrical currents on ...
Scientists catalog weird microbes in your body – a few pounds of bacteria is healthy for you
By creating this microbiome catalog, researchers hope to figure out the complex interactions between the countless microbes in our bodies ...
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