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Date Time Researchers discover bacteria can make DNA using urine Bacteria (round spheres) on the surface of the bladder where they encounter urine to make their DNA. (Image: Glen Ulett) Streptococcus, a bacterium that causes painful human urinary tract infections can generate new DNA using human urine, researchers at Griffith University have found. Dr Matthew Sullivan and colleagues from the School of Medical Science discovered the bacterium, which often infects healthy humans, has specialised ...

The menagerie of bacterial and fungal species living among us is ever growing - and this is no exception in low-gravity environments, such as the International Space Station (ISS).

Story highlights The findings published in the Frontiers in Microbiology described the discovery of bacteria belonging to the family Methylobacteriaceae from different locations aboard the ISS across two consecutive flights The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has discovered three bacterial strains at the International Space Station that may help grow plants on Mars. In order to withstand the rigours of space on deep-space missions, food grown outside of Earth needs a li...

They looked at samples collected from an air filter, a research station, and the dining table. Three samples revealed a species of bacteria that hadnt been seen on Earth. The menagerie of bacterial and fungal species living among us is ever growing — and this is no exception in low-gravity environments such as the International Space Station. A new study showed that researchers from the US and India working with NASA have discovered four strains of bacteria living in different places on the I...

Did life ever exist on Mars? What could it have looked like? Scientists are on a quest to find out if another planet other than our own ever hosted life. Clues to what they might find are hidden in the ancient landscapes of Australia.

Summary New cryo-electron microscopy images suggest archaeal microbes pack their chromatin into tight coils that can spring open, forming unexpected contortions. Archaeal DNA forms coils that can flop apart in solution, new cryo-electron microscopy experiments reveal. Credit: S. Bowerman et al./ eLife 2021 In some single-celled organisms, DNA coils like a spring and opens like a book. eLife. “Very much to our surprise, we found that these structures can undergo all sorts of gymnastics,” sa...

Scientists have found that some Earth microbes could survive on Mars temporarily after launching them into Earth’s stratosphere on the MARSBOx space balloon.

Daycares in Finland Built a Forest Floor, And It Changed Childrens Immune Systems 22 OCTOBER 2020 Playing through the greenery and litter of a mini forests undergrowth for just one month may be enough to change a childs immune system, according to a small new experiment.    When daycare workers in Finland rolled out a lawn, planted forest undergrowth such as dwarf heather and blueberries, and allowed children to care for crops in planter boxes, the diversity of microbes in the guts and on t...

From left: Hongbo Chi, Ph.D., Hongling Huang, Ph.D., and PeiPei Zhou, Ph.D., all of St. Jude Immunology, have mapped the previously unknown biological...

Polymateria, a startup based at Imperial's White City Campus, has created plastic cling film that breaks down within a year and can also be recycled....