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Tag: microbes
Different cities have their own microbial fingerprint, a global study reports
"If you gave me your shoe, I could tell you with about 90% accuracy the city you came from," the ...
Microbial earthly life could survive on Mars, at least for a time
Human visitors to Mars could bring along numerous microscopic colonizers. That's both good and bad.
Wildfire smoke can carry microbes that cause infectious diseases, researchers find
There's no such thing as 'clean' smoke, microbes can survive in it.
Could bacteria take up jobs mining in space? Turns out, they could
It's honest work.
Scientists find evidence of ocean crust microbes living beneath the seafloor
“The lower ocean crust is one of the last frontiers of the exploration for life on Earth," said the researchers.
Microbes discovered in the ocean’s crust rely on recycling to survive
Microbes were found in rocks 700 meters below the bottom of the ocean.
Sanitizing homes gets rids of bacteria but makes room for fungi
Urban homes are artificial environments that foster fungi development.
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.