Tag: Bacteriology
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Posted on February 4, 2019
Microbes hitched to insects provide a rich source of new antibiotics
Medicine was transformed in the 20th century by the discovery and development of antibiotics, the vast majority of which came from one source: soil bacteria. […]
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Posted on January 18, 2019
New biosensor highlights best biofuel-producing microbes
A major goal of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center is to harness the power of microbes to create biofuels. But often, it’s an expensive challenge for […]
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Posted on January 9, 2019
Scientists provide new insight on how gene expression is controlled
New research on transcriptional pausing, which helps control gene expression in cells, will aid in the understanding of the enzyme RNA polymerase — a key player […]
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Posted on November 21, 2018
‘Foray’ draws scientists to Wisconsin in search of mushrooms, fellowship
The caravan rolled slowly down Brodhead Street past the Mazomanie Historical Society, crossed the railroad tracks and took a right on Hudson Street to stay […]
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Posted on November 14, 2018
Beneficial gut bacteria metabolize fiber to improve heart health in mice
Diets rich in fiber have long been associated with an array of positive outcomes, chief among them healthy hearts and arteries protected from the ravages […]
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Posted on October 10, 2018
Recovering from a heart attack? Hold the antibiotics
The community of microorganisms that live in the human gut has been shown to confer all kinds of health benefits. Now, an international team of […]
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Posted on October 2, 2018
Set in amber, fossil ants help reconstruct evolution of fungus farming
Some 50 million years before humans figured it out, agriculture arrived in the world in a seemingly unlikely place: an ant hill. Eschewing wheat or […]
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Posted on September 28, 2018
In dangerous fungal family’s befriending of plants, a story of loss
If Lewis Carroll had described in detail the mushroom Alice nibbles in Wonderland to shrink and grow to her rightful size, he might have noted […]
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Posted on August 28, 2018
An ocean apart, carnivorous pitcher plants create similar communities
After a six-hour ride over increasingly treacherous roads, it took a full day’s hike up almost 3,000 feet for Leonora Bittleston to reach Nepenthes Camp […]
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Posted on August 7, 2018
Scientists identify corn that fixes its own nitrogen, needing less fertilizer
A public-private collaboration of researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of California, Davis, and Mars Inc., have identified varieties of tropical corn from […]