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- Urea: The Hidden Fuel for Ocean Microbes
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology find that urea is a major energy source for ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) in the open ocean, while coastal AOA prefer ammonium. Th...
- Unseen allies: Symbiotic bacteria help clean wastewater, but there is a catch
An international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology has uncovered a hidden world of tiny partnerships thriving in wastewater treatment plants worldwide. ... - The molecular choreography of efficient microbial carbon capture
Researchers at three collaborating Max Planck Institutes have unveiled the process by which certain single-celled microorganisms convert carbon dioxide into energy-rich compounds in oxygen-free env...
- Methane degradation without oxygen in lakes
Methane-oxidizing bacteria could play a greater role than previously thought in preventing the release of climate-damaging methane from lakes, researchers from Bremen report. They also show who is ...
- Capturing CO2 with electricity: A microbial enzyme inspires electrochemistry
Humanity continuously emits greenhouse gases and thereby worsens global warming. Increasing research efforts go into developing strategies to convert these gases, such as carbon dioxide, into valua... - Microbial life on nitric oxide respiration
In a long-term culture, scientists find and characterize two new microorganisms growing on the toxic gas nitric oxide, reducing it completely to N2. Nitric oxide is a central molecule in the glo... - Reactive oxygen impacts carbon cycling in tidal sands
Reactive oxygen species - very reactive molecules containing oxygen - have a great impact on mineralization processes in tidal sandflats, study finds. Their investigation is thus important for unde...
- Nitrogen inputs in the ancient ocean - underappreciated bacteria step into the spotlight
It was long assumed that cyanobacteria were mainly responsible for fixing nitrogen on early Earth, thus making nitrogen available to the biosphere. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marin... - A long day for microbes, and the rise of oxygen on Earth
Life on Earth today relies on the presence of oxygen. However, the process behind the step-wise rise of oxygen levels in the atmosphere, which took place over nearly two billion years, remains unde...
- Discovery of an unusual protein playing a significant role in the Earth's nitrogen cycle
Nitrogen is an essential component of life. For example, it is required for the production of proteins. Boran Kartal, head of the Microbial Physiology group at the Max Planck Institute for Marine M...
- Diverse microbial life on a sand grain
Just imagine, you are sitting on a sunny beach, contentedly letting the warm sand trickle through your fingers. Millions of sand grains. What you probably can't imagine: at the same time, billions ...
- Iron-munching microbe discovered
A microbe that 'eats' both methane and iron: microbiologists have long suspected its existence, but were not able to find it - until now. Researchers at Radboud University and the Max Planck Instit...
- How microbes deal with nitrate - New study could help to improve fertilizers and reduce greenhouse gasses
The impact of human civilisation on the global carbon cycle and its consequences are well known. Other important processes are generally not in the focus of the public: the massive input of nitroge...
- Archaea: Four cells turn seabed microbiology upside down
Single-celled archaea are invisible to the naked eye, and even when using a microscope, great care must be taken to observe them. An international team of researchers led by the Center for Geomicro...