A stomach virus making little ones sick is “what’s going around” this week. The virus is hitting kids age two and under… Read more

A University of Alberta-led research team has discovered an influenza detector gene that could potentially prevent the transmission of the virus to humans… Read more

“We tend to think of protists (single-celled organisms) as ’simple’ and humans as ‘complex’ — but the Naegleria genome shows us that much of this complexity arose really early in evolution,” said Scott Dawson, assistant professor of microbiology at UC Davis… Read more

Spring is definitely in the air and fungi-obsessed stalkers are peering anxiously into woodlots and thickets searching for clusters of umbrella-leaved May Apples… Read more

The Iron-Doc™ is a “well oiled machine” and Pure One™ algae oil omega-3s may have something to do with that. The Iron-Doc™ is training for competitions held around the world. Pure One™ producer Source-Omega sponsors the Iron-Doc™ to help give him a pure, sustainable advantage… Read more

BIO thanked Reps. Earl Pomeroy and John Shimkus for introducing bill to extend Cellulosic Ethanol Production Tax Credit by 3 years. BIO also called for extending tax code parity to algae-based biofuels and full range of innovative biobased technologies… Read more

An algae that eats carbon dioxide and provides bio-fuel and cattle feed as by-products will start a revolutionary commercial trial in Queensland this year… Read more

To boost their diet of mineral nutrients and sunlight, small algae also feast on bacteria in order to grow and fix carbon dioxide (CO2). Understanding more about the lifestyle of small algae – which are major players in CO2 fixation in the ocean – could help to improve ecological models of oceanic and global changes… Read more

Scientists are delving into how our immune system sniffs out infection in the body by responding to chemical “scents” emitted by bacteria… Read more

It is an important industrial gas, necessary for the manufacture of important compounds such as rubber and vitamins, but very little is known about how isoprene is cycled in the environment… Read more