Bacteria

Researchers Put '5 Second Rule' To The Test

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 05.11.2012

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Do you ever eat food that's fallen on the floor? Adherents of the "five second rule" certainly do, but a new study suggests that more bacteria may sti...

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The Hard Drive Of The Future Is...

The Huffington Post | Sara Gates | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Video, Faster Hard Drive, Sarah Staniland, Computer Hard Drives, Iron-Eating Bacteria, University of Leeds Research, Small Hard Drives, Hard Drives, Nano-Magnets, Magnetic Bacteria, Bacteria, Technology News

Recent microbe research found that a certain type of iron-eating bacteria has the ability to produce tiny magnets. Enter magnetic bacteria. Similar to...

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A Black Queen in a Blue Ocean: How Microbes Evolve to Depend on Each Other

Jeff Morris | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Microorganisms, Evolution, Bacteria, Evolution Bacteria, Black Queen Hypothesis, Evolution Microorganisms, Prochlorococcus, Evolutionary Biology, Science News
Jeff Morris

Why was it advantageous for the last common ancestor of all life to sacrifice self-sufficiency -- in other words, why is the world no longer the province of a small number of "jack of all trades" species?

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Early Life Forms Used 'Redundancy' To Survive, Scientists Say

Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Video, Carbon Fixation, Earth's First Life, Early Evolution, First Life on Earth, Science, Evolution, Science News, Huffington Post, Bacteria, Science News

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 04/19/2012 07:06 PM EDT on LiveScience The earliest cells were unstable chemical systems th...

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GROSS: New UC Berkeley Study Shows Humans Carry HOW Much Bacteria?

| Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Human Germs, Bacteria Germs, How Much Bacteria Do Humans Carry, Indoor Bacteria, Indoor Bacteria Humans, Indoor Air Bacteria, Yale Bacteria Study, Uc Berkeley Bacteria Study, Indoor Air Journal, Bacteria, Human Bacteria, Humans Carry Bacteria, San Francisco News

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Susanne Rust You are a big bag of germs. And just by walking into a room, you add 37 m...

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Cell Cognition and Cell Decision-Making

James A. Shapiro | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Intercellular Signal, Apoptosis, Jacques Monod, Cell Cycle, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Bacterial Multicellularity, Cell, Spindle Checkpoint, Quorum Sensing, Death Receptor, Checkpoint, Programmed Cell Death, Cytokine, Eukaryote, Bacteria, Cognition, Tnf, Sugar Metabolism, Science News
James A. Shapiro

It is common today for molecular, cell and developmental biologists to speak of cells "knowing" and "choosing" what to do under various conditions.

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Can "Superbug" Slime From Stratosphere Solve Earth's Power Problem?

Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Fuel Cell, Video, Electricity, Space Bugs, Space Bacteria, Superbugs, Power, Bacteria, Space Germs, Germs, Science News

By: InnovationNewsDaily Staff Published: 02/23/2012 04:24 PM EST on InnovationNewsDaily A U.K.-based research team has created a fuel cell that ...

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What Is the Key to a Realistic Theory of Evolution?

James A. Shapiro | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Eukaryotic Cell, Gradualism, Natural Selection, Evolutionary Theory, Innovation, Lynn Margulis, Horizontal DNA Transfer, Antibiotic Resistance, Symbiogenesis, Barbara McClintock, Origin of Species, Natural Genetic Engineering, Rapid Speciation, Charles Darwin, G. Ledyard Stebbins, Fitness, Bacteria, Genome Sequence, Charles Lyell, Evolution, Science News
James A. Shapiro

Was Darwin simply mistaken about the gradual nature of hereditary variation? Such ignorance would be unavoidable before we knew about Mendelian genetics and DNA. Or was there a deeper flaw in the theory that he (and Alfred Russell Wallace) propounded?

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Life In Antarctic Lake? It's Everywhere Else

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Unexpected Lifeforms, Lake Vostok Microbes, Antarctica, Video, Microbial Life, Lake Vostok, Science, Underwater Lifeforms, Bacteria, Lake Vostok Antarctica, Ap, Green News

WASHINGTON (AP) — If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that som...

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Lyme Disease Map Shows Where Disease Poses Biggest Threat

AP/The Huffington Post | By HOLLY RAMER | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Video, Tick Lyme Disease, Lyme Disease, Bacteria Lyme, Lyme Disease Map, Ticks, Bacteria, Lyme Map, Science News

CONCORD, N.H. -- Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim co...

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New Study Suggests Surprising Cause Of Obesity

Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Mice, Video, Infectious Diseases, Obesity Epidemic, Yale University, Fat, Obesity, Bacteria, Germs, Overweight, Rodents, Science News

By: Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Writer Published: 02/03/2012 09:08 AM EST on MyHealthNewsDaily We've heard obesity can be "sp...

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EPA Proposal Allows 1 in 28 People to Get Sick at U.S. Beaches

Steve Fleischli | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Bacteria, Health, Beaches, Recreation, Epa, Clean Water Act, Environmental Protection Agency, Beach Act, U.S. Beaches EPA, U.S. Beaches EPA Proposal, Green News
Steve Fleischli

EPA has a responsibility to keep our waters healthy to ensure that we are too. Instead, the agency glosses over its own science by ignoring the known risks of getting certain illnesses, like diarrhea, from swimming in contaminated waters

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Treating a World Without Antibiotics?

Stanley M. Bergman | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Bacteria, Antibiotics Resistance, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Science News
Stanley M. Bergman

Because of the overuse of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance is developing all of the time. With microbial evolution outpacing human invention, a nightmare scenario is possible. And this isn't just science fiction.

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PHOTOS: Beautiful Bacteria Pictures

| Christina Agapakis | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Biology Pictures, Bacteria Pictures, False Color Pictures, Bacteria, Fernan Federici, Bacillus Subtilis, Welcome Image Awards, Microscope Pictures, Science News

Bacteria grow by dividing in half, their population doubling in size as fast as every twenty minutes. In a few short hours, a bacterial culture can go...

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Sharing Absolutely Everything: The Human Imperative

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Communal Living, Sharing, Microbes, Empathy, Selflessness, Selfishness, Electron Microscope, Bacteria, Biological Diversity, Good News News
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring

From before our first breath, from the moment of conception, we share. It is the fundamental verb of human existence.

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Life's Most Amazing Invisible Secrets

Andy Mannle | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Carbon, Consciousness, Biology, Carbon Dioxide, Living Systems, Bacteria, Lynn Margulis, Mitochondria, Life, Symbiogenesis, Science News
Andy Mannle

One of my heroes, evolutionary microbiologist Lynn Margulis, died this past Thanksgiving. Here are some of her most surprising, and fascinating revelations

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Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria From the Fukushima Nuclear Accident?

Dr. Douglas Fields | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Fukushima, Bacteria, Nuclear Power, Science News
Dr. Douglas Fields

Could the radiation that will be contaminating the environment surrounding the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant for hundreds of years produce bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics?

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Hubris and the Tree of Life

Joseph LeDoux | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Embryology, Aristotle, Philosophy, Neuroscience, Brain, Biology, Charles Darwin, Vertebrates, Psychology, Evolution, Bacteria, Mammals, Book of Genesis, Science News
Joseph LeDoux

We are part of a process, not its goal or final state. Just a branch point, a distal twig, on a continuously branching limb of the tree of life. Some may feel this perspective diminishes us. I don't.

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There's A 25% Chance Your Ground Meat Has A Potentially Fatal Bacteria

Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Antibiotic Use, Antibiotic Resistance, Ground Meat, Video, Ground Meat Bacteria, Antibiotics, Bacteria, Mark Bittman, Antibiotics in Meat, Food News

Mark Bittman has yet another fascinating column in the New York Times, this time on the prevalence of bacteria in meat. He discusses a study that anal...

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Bacteria That Could Pass As X-Men

| Posted 12.16.2011

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By S.E. Gould (Click here for original article.) 1) The Blob Like many of the X-men, the Blob has gone through several incarnations of chara...

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Music: Food For The Brain

Big Think | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Mozart, Brain Development, Brain and Emotions, Cortisol, Music Therapy, Brain Growth, Bacteria, Music, Music and Emotions, Antibodies, Fifty News

Listening to Mozart probably won't make you smarter but music can positively influence your brain in other ways. If you listen to soothing music, for ...

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Seriously, Do We Really Need Health Clubs?

John Blumenthal | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Baseball, Stairmaster, Personal Trainer, Zumba, Pilates, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Health Clubs, Plantar Wart, Richard Nixon, High School Gym Class, Locker Room, Chicken Noodle Soup, Torquemada Yard Sale, Bacteria, Ringling Brothers, Albert Einstein, Torture, Fifty News
John Blumenthal

Even though I'm over fifty, I still groan at the vivid memory of high school gym class which, for me, was an exercise in torture.

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Cell Phones: A Biological Part of You

Matthew Edlund, M.D. | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Hands, Feculent Bacteria, Human Ecosystem, Hand Washing, Pathogens, Infections, Colds, Cell Phones, Bacteria, Contagion, Preventing-Colds, Centers for Disease Control, Healthy Living Body, Personal Health, Cell Phone Germs, Healthy Living News
Matthew Edlund, M.D.

Cell phones change economies, communication, education, human brains and inner-human ecology. Treat them with respect -- as biologically part of your hand. Keep them clean.

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FDA Releases The Cause Of The Outbreak

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Video, Listeria Outbreak, Cantaloupe, Unsanitary Food Practices, Listeria Monocytogenes, Fda, Bacteria, Jensen Farms, Cantaloupe 2011, Fda Cause of Listeria Outbreak, Multi-State Listeria, Denver News

WASHINGTON — Pools of water on the floor and old, hard-to-clean equipment at a Colorado farm's cantaloupe-packing facility were probably to blam...

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Study Shows Hospital Curtains' Hidden Danger

The Huffington Post | Amanda Chan | Posted 11.26.2011

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Those hospital curtains that give privacy to patients could also be harboring drug-resistant bacteria, including the infamous methicillin-resistant st...

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