Articles tagged with "Microbiology"

Killer Fungus threatening to make many Amphibians extinct!

Amphibians like frogs and toads have existed for 360 million years and survived even after extinction of dinosaurs. But now, a new aquatic fungus is threatening to make many of these amphibians extinct, according to an article in the November issue of Microbiology Today.
The fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd),was found to be associated with [...]

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Breakthrough in Bioethanol production from Agricultural waste

With the introduction of a single bacterial gene into yeast, researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands achieved three improvements in bioethanol production from agricultural waste material: ‘More ethanol, less acetate and elimination of the major by-product glycerol’ This week the invention was published in the scientific journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
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