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Preserved Frogs Hold Clues to Deadly Pathogen
June 20, 2012 — A graduate student has developed a novel means for charting the history of a pathogen deadly to amphibians ... > full story -
Bugs Have Key Role in Farming Approach to Storing CO2 Emissions
June 15, 2012 — Tiny microbes are at the heart of a novel agricultural technique to manage harmful greenhouse gas ... > full story -
Voicemail Discovered in Nature: Insects Receive Soil Messages from the Past
June 12, 2012 — Insects can use plants as "green phones" for communication with other bugs. A new study now shows that through those same plants insects are also able to leave "voicemail" messages in the soil. ... > full story -
Long-Ignored Enzyme Turns out to Be Key to Killing Infectious Bacteria
June 11, 2012 — New research shows that an enzyme that has long been considered relatively useless to the immune response instead has an important role in setting up immune cells to kill infection-causing ... > full story -
Microbes Discovered in Extreme Environment on South American Volcanoes
June 8, 2012 — Scientists looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few living on volcanoes that reaching nearly 20,000 feet in ... > full storyMore: -
Microbial Communities Changed After Deepwater Horizon Spill
June 6, 2012 — Communities of microbial organisms -- species such as nematodes, protists and fungi -- on beaches along the Gulf of Mexico changed significantly following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April ... > full story -
Role of Fungus in Digestive Disorders Explored
June 6, 2012 — Researchers say their examination of the fungi in the intestines suggests an important link between these microbes and inflammatory diseases such as ulcerative colitis. In the new study researchers ... > full story -
New Plant and Fungus Species Discovered
June 5, 2012 — In a single year, scientists at The New York Botanical Garden have discovered and described 81 new species of plants and fungi from around the world. Combining work in the field, laboratory research, ... > full story -
Wallflowers of the Earth System
June 3, 2012 — In cities, the presence of algae, lichens, and mosses is not considered desirable and they are often removed from roofs and walls. It is, however, totally unfair to consider these cryptogamic covers, ... > full story -
Map Could Point Way to Fungus Vaccine
May 31, 2012 — Researchers have made breakthrough use of 3-D magnetic resonance technology to map the structure of Candida, a common fungus that is potentially deadly for individuals with impaired immune function. ... > full story
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