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The International Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM), part of the Census of Marine Life, uncovered a more diverse and larger population of microbes than was known or anticipated, according to principal investigator Mitch Sogin, director of the Josephine Bay Paul Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and his collaborators there and at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, the Netherlands.
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Novel boron-containing molecules prove effective killers of trypanosomes, the parasites that cause African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, according to Bakela Nare and Stephen Wring of Scynexis in Research Triangle Park, N.C., and their collaborators there, and at U.S. and Swiss universities as well as drug-development institutions in the United States and Switzerland.
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses two distinct type IV pili (TFP)-driven movements when foraging -the first, "crawling," gets a cell from one place to another quickly, while the second, "walking" upright, enables it to explore its surroundings, according to Gerard C. L. Wong at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and colleagues there and at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the University of Houston in Houston, Tex., and the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Ind.
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Analysis by Raman spectroscopy unveils photosynthetic and photoprotective pigments in halite crust crystals- rock salt-from the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, according to Petr Vitek from the Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Mineral Resources at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and his collaborators.
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Compounds that are based on triclosan, a widely used antiseptic compound, make it "more druggable," and improve its effectiveness against parasites, says Rima McLeod, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Ill.
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