A view at the cupola window of collection tubes containing swab samples of microbes for the 3DMM (Three-dimensional Microbial Monitoring of ISS Environment) investigation.
Bacteria
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Unveiling the Microbial Realm with VEBA 2.0
Unveiling the Microbial Realm with VEBA 2.0: A Modular Bioinformatics Suite For End-to-end Genome-resolved Prokaryotic, (micro)eukaryotic, and Viral Multi-omics From Either Short- or Long-read Sequencing
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Genes Identified That Allow Bacteria To Thrive Despite Toxic Heavy Metal In Soil
Some soil bacteria can acquire sets of genes that enable them to pump the heavy metal nickel out of their systems, a study has found. This enables the bacteria to […]
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biophysics, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Microbiology & Virology, Origin & Evolution of Life, Status Report
Early-branching Cyanobacteria Up-regulate Superoxide Dismutase Activity Under A Simulated Early Earth Anoxic Atmosphere
The evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis during the Archean (4-2.5 Ga), required the presence of complementary reducing pathways to maintain the cellular redox balance.
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Iceworld Ecology: Bacteria In Earth’s Arctic Seabed Are Active All Year Round
The Arctic is cold and hostile to life, yet it is home to a large number of microorganisms whose activity has a significant impact on life on our planet.
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Metagenomics Untangles Potential Adaptations of Antarctic Endolithic Bacteria at the Fringe of Habitability
From 109 endolithic microbiomes, 4,539 metagenome-assembled genomes were generated, 49.3 % of which were novel candidate bacterial species.
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Some Bacteria Could Survive Under Mars Conditions
An international team of radiation specialists, biologists and infectious disease experts has found four types of bacteria that are capable of surviving exposure to the hostile Mars environment. In their […]
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New Tool Reveals Gene Behavior In Bacteria
Bacterial infections cause millions of deaths each year, with the global threat made worse by the increasing resistance of the microbes to antibiotic treatments.
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Correlations Between Life-Detection Techniques and Implications for Sampling Site Selection in Planetary Analog Missions
We conducted an analog sampling expedition under simulated mission constraints to areas dominated by basaltic tephra of the Eldfell and Fimmvörðuháls lava fields (Iceland).
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A Low-Diversity Microbiota Inhabits Extreme Terrestrial Basaltic Terrains and Their Fumaroles: Implications for the Exploration of Mars
A major objective in the exploration of Mars is to test the hypothesis that the planet hosted life. Even in the absence of life, the mapping of habitable and uninhabitable […]