Textbook knowledge turned on its head: 3-in-1 microorganism discovered

Newly multifunctional bacterial species

06-Nov-2023 - A team of researchers from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ- German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH and Technische Universität Braunschweig, in collaboration with the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin, USA, has now been able to show that there is an incredibly ...

Microbiologists Discover Enigmatic Comammox Microbes

New Chapter in Environmental Microbiology

30-Nov-2015 - Nitrification plays a key role in Earth’s natural nitrogen cycle and in agriculture. This process comprises two sequential steps, and for more than 100 years experts have assumed these steps to be carried out by different microorganisms. Now an international team of scientists led by Holger Daims ...

Molecular genealogy in the Arctic sediment

20-Jan-2010 - Heat-loving bacteria found in the Arctic seabed have their origins in oil springs and the depths of the Earth's crust. This is the finding of a project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, which used molecular biology to study "misplaced" bacteria such as these. The possibility that ...

Austrianova discovers new therapeutic for cancer gene therapy

01-Mar-2006 - Austrianova, together with its partner at the Research Institute for Virology and Biomedicine, University of Veterinary Medicine have shown that a gene from a bacteriophage can be used for the treatment of cancer. The Department of Therapeutic Genes & Delivery Systems at Austrianova, headed by ...

Campus Vienna Biocenter Thriving Plant Research

14-Feb-2006 - At the Campus Vienna Biocenter research has begun into environmental stress-induced changes to the plant genome supported by the Austrian genome program (GEN-AU). A EUR 1.3 million budget has been allocated to the three-year project. Two task groups at the University of Natural Resources and ...