News - Powered by Yahoo NewsRainforest microbe can handle ionic liquids: New find could help reduce biofuel production cost
Researchers have identified a tropical rainforest microbe that can endure relatively high concentrations of an ionic liquid used to dissolve cellulosic biomass for the production of advanced biofuels. They've also determined how the microbe accomplishes this, a discovery that holds broad implications beyond biofuels.
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Microbe that can handle ionic liquid
( DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ) Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have identified a tropical rainforest microbe that can endure relatively high concentrations of an ionic liquid used to dissolve cellulosic biomass for the production of advanced biofuels. They've also determined how the microbe accomplishes this, a discovery that holds broad implications beyond ...
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Research and Markets: Effectors in Plant-Microbe Interaction
Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Effectors in Plant-Mic
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Arctic Microbe Hunt Could Aid Search for Alien Lif
Researchers are keying in on methane as a possible indicator of alien life.
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Legume lessons: Reducing fertilizer use through beneficial microbe reaction
( University of Delaware ) Janine Sherrier, professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Delaware, is part of a team that has been awarded $6.8 million from the National Science Foundation to study the legume Medicago truncatula and the protein-to-protein interactions essential for its symbiotic relationship with beneficial microbes.
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Early Microbe Exposure [Lab Reports
JAMA . 2012;307(17):1790-1790. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.3723 Functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brains of 9 patients before and after they were successfully treated for severe depression revealed a reduction after treatment in average global connectivity in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortical region, which has been implicated in depressive disorder and may have a key role in ...
Tue, 01 May 2012 13:47:57 -0700 -
Gut-microbe swap changes eating habit
Obesity-resistant rats pile on the pounds after receiving gut bacteria from obese rodents
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Magnetic bacteria may help build computer hard drive
Itsy-bitsy, super-speedy computers of the future may be grown with bacteria, according to researchers who?ve already harnessed a magnet-making microbe to start building hard-drive components.
Wed, 09 May 2012 11:48:07 -0700 -
From Soil Microbe To Super-Efficient Biofuel Factor
Is there a new path to biofuels hiding in a handful of dirt? Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) biologist Steve Singer leads a group that wants to find out. Theyâre exploring whether a common soil bacterium can be engineered to produce liquid transportation fuels much more efficiently than the ways in which advanced biofuels are made today.
Mon, 07 May 2012 03:59:21 -0700 -
What Our Gut Microbes Say About U
While U.S. adults have relatively uniform microbe colonies in their guts, adults in Malawi and Amazonia have much more diverse populations. Scientists are still struggling with why that is and what it means.
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