Human Commensal and Mutual Organisms
From the moment of birth and throughout our entire lives, humans share their bodies with a surprising variety of microscopic organisms. Dust mites remove dead skin...
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Economic Uses and Benefits of Microorganisms
Microorganisms have been used as tools for the production of products for millennia. Even in ancient times, the ability to produce vinegar by allowing wate...
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Microbial Flora of the Oral Cavity, Dental Caries
The microbial flora of the oral cavity are rich and extremely diverse. This reflects the abundant nutrients and moisture, and hospitable temperature, ...
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Microorganisms
Microorganisms are minute organisms of microscopic dimensions, too small to be seen by the eye alone. To be viewed, microorganisms must be magnified by an optical or electron microscope...
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Microbes (Microorganisms)
Microbes, also known as microorganisms, are defined solely on the basis of their size—they are too small to be seen by the naked eye. Microorganisms can only be view...
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For many centuries, scientists believed there were only two kingdoms, or groups of living things: plants and animals. But Anton van Leeuwenhoek made microscopes in the 17th century that also proved...
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Microorganisms locked in Antarctic ice for 100,000 years and more came to life and resumed growing when given warmth and nutrients in a laboratory.Researchers led by Kay Bidle of Rutgers University...
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The US Pharmacopeia (USP) and the European Pharmacopoeia (Pharm Eur) "Microbial Limits Tests" are in the final stages of harmonization. They were signed off to Stage 6A at the November 2005 meeting...
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A sparkling subterranean crystalline calcite formation known as Snowy River is no longer a dry riverbed. Scientists say Snowy River, discovered in 2001, is now running with between a half-foot to a...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have assembled
the entire genome of a living organism -- a bacterium -- in
what they hope is an important step to creating artificial
life. The bug, Mycoplasma g...
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The microorganisms that live in your gut could explain one of the sources of obesity, says a new study from researchers at Washington University.
Bacteria live throughout the body, but som...
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Moscow (dpa) - Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov
finished their second spacewalk in a week late Wednesday after
mounting new protective shields and install...
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An experiment that involves Montana State University scientists and students is orbiting the earth aboard a Russian space capsule.Launched Friday from Kazakhstan, the experiment involves common con...
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The following recall has been announced:Quong Hop & Co. of South San Francisco, Calif., is for the second time expanding its recall of tofu products, this time to include a new item and ones th...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Adding a pinch of magnolia bark
to mints or gum can eliminate bad breath by killing most
odor-causing germs, U.S. researchers reported Wednesday. Most bad breath occurs when ba...
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Human Commensal and Mutual Organisms
Economic Uses and Benefits of Microorganisms
Microbes (Microorganisms)
Science Readers: Life Science: Simple Organisms
Entombed microbes flourish again in lab
