bacteria

http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/050207_extremophiles.html A pretty interesting article. Most of you probably already know about the extremophiles, but the resistance that some have and the extent to which it would be possible for things like this to live on other planets is pretty...

Researchers have have found certain species of aquatic bacteria produce substances which kill deadly hospital acquired superbugs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2803451.stm http://jac.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/full/47/5/724 Could this be a cure for these infections in vivo as well as...

A Buffalo (SUNY) university art professor, Steven Kurtz, was hauled in front of a Federal Grand jury because bacterial cultures and DNA amplification equipment were found in his home by paramedics who were called to help his wife who suddenly stopped breathing and died back in May. Kurtz said...

interesting article. i had heard about diseases travelling via dust storms, but the rest was new to me. anyone have an opinion about the viablity of the hypotheses that are mentioned?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3004617.stm Biological control - but the real interest is saving penguins!

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2003/216/2 (ScienceNow - subscription only) Deep underground, uranium atoms in rocks undergo radioactive decay, sending off alpha particles--two protons and two neutrons--that can bump into other molecules and change them. Scientists wondered...