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Grand Ambitions Drive Early “Baby Steps” In Synthetic Biology Print E-mail

With synthetic biology, "don't believe the hype; we're taking baby steps and it's hard to get things to work the way you want," says James Collins of Boston University in Boston, Mass.

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Major Host Health Effects Ascribed to Gut Microbiome Print E-mail

Commensal gut bacteria apparently influence human health more than they are credited with, according to Jeremy Nicholson of Imperial College, London, England, who spoke during the symposium, "The Human Body as Supra-Organism, Microbial Observatory, and Ecosystem at Risk," part of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Washington, D.C., last February.

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Pleistocene Microbes Recovered from Halite Inclusions Prove Viable Print E-mail

Organisms belonging to a 34,000- year-old microbial ecosystem within brine-filled inclusions from subsurface halite crystals dating to the Pleistocene Epoch thrive once extracted, according to geomicrobiologists Tim K. Lowenstein, Brain A. Schubert, and Michael N. Timofeeff from the State University of New York (SUNY) in Binghamton.

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Some Strains of Foodborne Listeria Target the Heart Print E-mail

Some strains of the foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, known for causing gastroenteritis, also can infect the heart, sometimes fatally.

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Metagenomic Analysis Suggests Fourth Domain within Tree of Life Print E-mail
Analysis of metagenomic data suggests a fourth domain of life, according to Jonathan Eisen of the University of California Davis (UCD).
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For Virulence, Burkholderia cenocepacia Depends on a Pair of RNA Chaperones Print E-mail
Burkholderia cenocepacia J2315 both makes and requires a pair of RNA chaperone proteins to be fully virulent and to resist stress, according to Jorge H. Leitao of the Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon, Portugal, and his colleagues.
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Minitopics Print E-mail

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