How Cyanobacteria Turn Carbon into Fuel – Video

How Cyanobacteria Turn Carbon into Fuel – Video

Special structures called carboxysomes are responsible for the conversion

  • Health
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • May 25th, 2012
Compound in Coral-Damaging Seaweeds May Help Treat Diseases

Compound in Coral-Damaging Seaweeds May Help Treat Diseases

Experts discover a substance with interesting biomedical properties

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 1st, 2010
How Organisms Bore Through Limestone

How Organisms Bore Through Limestone

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 9th, 2010
Terraforming Mars with Cyanobacteria

Terraforming Mars with Cyanobacteria

Growing Cyanobacteria for Oxygen and Biofuel

Growing Cyanobacteria for Oxygen and Biofuel

Scientists cultivate this source of biofuels and biomaterials in laboratory

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • March 19th, 2010
What Sleep Patterns and Bacterial Division Have in Common

What Sleep Patterns and Bacterial Division Have in Common

They are governed by the same mechanisms

The Microbe That Shares Its 'Throne'

The Microbe That Shares Its 'Throne'

It reigns supreme over oceanic nitrogen

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 18th, 2009
New Stromatolites Found in the Andes

New Stromatolites Found in the Andes

They dominated life on Earth when the planet was young

New Biofuel Production Technique Developed

New Biofuel Production Technique Developed

Cyanobateria makes cellulose for biofuel conversion