Sampling the World’s Oceans on a Global Scale Reveals the Complex Relationship between Viruses and Microbes

Medicine & Technology May 23, 2015

If you're going to study something as vast as the world's oceans, it helps if you have a large cadre of scientists to sift through the data. And that's just what an international research team, led by University of Arizona scientists, have done. They are rolling out the results of a three-year expedition in which they cataloged over 150,000 tiny ocean creatures, most of which are brand new discoveries.

Ocean Microbes and How They Affect Our Atmosphere in the Age of Climate Change

May 19, 2015

That restorative sea breeze you enjoy on your vacation is more complex than most of us realize. Now, researchers from the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment (CAICE) have demonstrated that microbes in seawater influence our climate, shaping the ways that sunlight enters the ocean as clouds form. The study recently presented to the American Chemical Society shows that it is the microbes in the seawater that control the way sea spray enters into the atmosphere, and everything that follows that.

Genome Editing Now Fighting Mosquitoes, Killing Bacteria, and Improving Pigs

Mar 27, 2015

Genome Editing: Fighting Mosquitoes, Killing Bacteria, and Improving Pigs

A 10-second Kiss May Transfer up to 80 Million Bacteria

Nov 18, 2014

A 10-second kiss may transfer up to 80 million bacteria, a new study says.