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Our Microbes, Ourselves

The human gut and skin are home to trillions of microbes that form complex communities critical to human health and that, if disrupted, could be related to a host of diseases.

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1. Uniform language for describing genes of pathogenic and beneficial microbes
   02-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
   An international group of scientists has announced a major expansion of a lingua franca used to describe the activities of genes in living organisms. The expansion provides terms that scientists can use to describe the complex events that occur when a pathogenic or beneficial microbe encounters its host. Understanding these events is crucial for developing new interventions for preventing infections by disease-causing microbes while preserving or encouraging the presence of beneficial microbes.
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2. Scientists expand microbe 'gene language'
   03-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
   An international group of scientists has expanded the universal language for the genes of both disease-causing and beneficial microbes and their hosts. This expanded "lingua franca," called the Gene Ontology (GO), gives researchers a common set of terms to describe the interactions between a microbe and its host.
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3. Protecting against a difficult microbe
   10-28-2006 · Science News Online
   By using DNA from the bacterium
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4. New Insights Into Costly Destruction Of Subsurface Petroleum
   09-29-2006 · ScienceDaily
   Scientists are reporting an advance toward understanding and possibly combating a natural process that destroys billions of dollars worth of subsurface petroleum. Called biodegradation, it occurs as bacteria and other microbes metabolize, or feed on, organic compounds present in crude oil.
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5. Investigating the invisible life in our environment
   02-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
   A new computational method to analyse environmental DNA samples, developed by researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, now sheds light on the microbial composition of different habitats, from soil to water. The study, which will be published in this week’s online issue of the journal Science, also reveals that microbes evolve faster in some environments than in others and that they rather rarely change their habitat preferences over time.
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6. Bigelow Laboratory Scientists develop new approach to study marine microbes
   05-21-2007 · EurekAlert!
   In a paper published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Ramunas Stepanauskas and Dr. Michael Sieracki have proven a new method of identifying genetic codes of ocean microbes from a single cell.
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7. Hydrothermal vents: Hot spots of microbial diversity
   10-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Thousands of new kinds of marine microbes have been discovered at two deep-sea hydrothermal vents off the Oregon coast by scientists at the MBL and University of Washington's Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean. Their findings, published in the Oct. 5 issue of the journal Science, are the result of the most comprehensive, comparative study to date of deep-sea microbial communities that are responsible for cycling carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur to help keep Earth habitable.
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8. MIT announces grant winners for energy research
   01-15-2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   From harnessing microbes to developing new materials, from curbing pollution to harvesting wasted watts, a wide variety of MIT research projects were chosen to receive more than $1.6 million in the MIT Energy Initiative's first round of campus seed grants.
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9. Extreme Life, Marine Style, highlights 2006 Ocean Census
   12-10-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Frontiers of marine knowledge were extended by the Census of Marine Life in 2006, highlights of which include life adapted to brutal conditions around 407ºC fluids spewing from a seafloor vent (the hottest ever discovered), a mighty microbe 1 cm in diameter, mysterious 1.8 kg (4 lb) lobsters off the Madagascar coast, a US school of fish the size of Manhattan Island, and more unfamiliar than familiar species turned up beneath 700 meters of Antarctic ice.
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10. Many infections tied to medical settings
    10-14-2006 · Science News Online
    More than one-fourth of skin or muscle infections that require hospitalization originate from microbes acquired in a clinic, hospital, or other medical-care setting.
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