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Spirulina shows promise in battling heart disease and diabetes

Researchers show Spirulina's therapeutic benefits, including anti-inflammatory and antidiabetic properties, can significantly lower cardiovascular disease risk.

26 Feb 2024

Advanced imaging technique reveals the high-resolution structure of cyanobacterial virus

A research team at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has outlined the high-resolution structure of a little-known virus, improving our understanding of viral infection, which could pave the way for more accurate predictions of climate change.

14 Dec 2023

How dietary restrictions, including intermittent fasting, impact gut microbiota and overall human health

Preclinical and clinical data to analyze gut microbial alterations in various dietary conditions.

5 Dec 2023

Genetics and sedimentology combined to refine cyanobacteria biomarker diagnostics

Cyanobacteria are a key species in Earth's history, as they introduced atmospheric oxygen for the first time. The analysis of their evolution therefore provides important insights into the formation of modern aerobic ecosystems.

27 Oct 2023

New TB treatments tackle the disease without wrecking your microbiome

Researchers in a study published in The Lancet Microbe examined how various tuberculosis treatment regimens affect the respiratory microbiome. They found that certain treatments control tuberculosis effectively while minimally impacting the diversity and health of the respiratory microbiome.

15 Oct 2023

Effectiveness of Lactobacillus in treating inflammatory bowel disease

The role of Lactobacillus in treating inflammatory bowel disease.

4 Oct 2023

Is your seafood safe? New study reveals alarming levels of toxins in Pacific Ocean marine life

A research paper published in the journal Science of the Total Environment explores how increasing levels of residual toxins in aquatic animals in the Pacific Ocean pose serious risks to food safety, human health, and food security. The paper outlines various types of toxins, their origins, and their impact on marine life and human health, highlighting the urgency for effective interventions.

26 Sep 2023

Do COVID-19 drugs in aquatic matrices negatively impact microalgae and cyanobacteria communities?

Researchers evaluated the presence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) drugs in river water.

8 Jun 2023

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences launches industry’s first microbioreactor light array module to enable the cultivation of photosynthetically active microalgae and microorganisms

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a global leader in laboratory automation and innovation, is lighting up microbioreactor research with its powerful new Light Array Module (LAM) for the popular BioLector XT Microbioreactor.

From Beckman Coulter Life Sciences 6 Jun 2023

Supercharge your health with carotenoids

This review highlights carotenoids' various biological activities, including antioxidant, anti-tumor, anti-diabetic, anti-aging, and anti-inflammatory effects, with a specific focus on lycopene.

15 May 2023

Does the skin microbiome contribute to protection from prolonged solar damage?

Researchers examined how the skin microbiome contributes to protection from solar damage.

19 Apr 2023

Highly complementary, biologically relevant protein-protein interactions can evolve entirely by chance

Proteins are the key players for virtually all molecular processes within the cell. To fulfil their diverse functions, they have to interact with other proteins.

7 Apr 2023

Plastic waste's 'plastisphere' could harbor and spread eukaryotic pathogens

A recent study reviews the potential for helminth, fungal, and protozoan pathogens to associate with plastisphere.

3 Apr 2023

Exposure to blue-green algae toxin shown to wreak havoc on gut bacteria and cause liver damage

Exposure to a specific type of blue-green algae toxin known as cylindrospermopsin has shown to wreak havoc on gut bacteria and an increased probability of irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, celiac disease, type 1 diabetes, obesity and inflammation of the liver – a precursor to liver cancer – according to a study led by the University of California, Irvine.

20 Dec 2022

Researchers uncover an intriguing previously unknown ability of Swiss army knife enzyme

Blue-green algae (AKA cyanobacteria) have a superpower which likely helps them be highly successful as invaders of waterways.

5 Oct 2022

Scientists explore ecological firewalls for the containment of synthetic microbes

In a new study, researchers described ecological firewalls (EFWs) to contain synthetic microbes.

10 Aug 2022

Scientists show how to design "ecological firewalls" for biosphere terraformation

Researchers discuss the use of ecological firewalls to predict and control communities of microbiota into which synthetic organisms are released.

11 Jul 2022

Lifestyle-specific differences in infant gut microbiome composition

A recent study published in Science noted that infant gut microbiome assembly varies with lifestyles.

13 Jun 2022

Researchers gain understanding of biosynthetic mechanisms for producing cyanobacterin

Researchers in the groups of Prof. Tobias Gulder from TU Dresden and Prof. Tanja Gulder from Leipzig University have succeeded in understanding the biosynthetic mechanisms for the production of the natural product cyanobacterin, which in Nature is produced in small quantities by the cyanobacteria Scytonema hofmanni.

27 May 2022

Researchers design and engineer artificial photosynthetic life-forms through endosymbiosis

Every plant, animal or other nucleus-containing cell also harbors an array of miniature "organs" that perform essential functions for the cell. In plants, for example, organelles called chloroplasts photosynthesize to generate energy for the organism.

3 May 2022