Author: Osama Alian

Are the building blocks of life at the bottom of the sea? Scientists recreated a deep-ocean environment where underwater volcanoes spew heat and chemicals to test whether or not biological molecules would form from non-biological ones.

Posted on May 15, 2019November 16, 2021 by Osama Alian 189 views

Scientists recreated a deep-ocean environment where underwater volcanoes spew heat and chemicals to test whether or not biological molecules…

Hunting for fossilized microbes Scientists drilled deep into the Mid-Atlantic ridge, and the rocks they retrieved carried fossils of microbes that are just under 1 million years old.

Posted on January 28, 2019November 16, 2021 by Osama Alian 140 views

We’ve all heard of hunting for fossils to learn about the Earth’s past, but what if you wanted to learn about the microbes that lived…

Friends to Foes: When a Symbiont Becomes a Parasite Hotter water changes the relationship between coral reefs and tiny single-celled organisms called symbiodinium

Posted on May 2, 2018April 7, 2021 by Osama Alian 213 views

We’ve all heard that rising global temperatures are bad for the environment. Typically, this is framed in terms of rising sea levels and…

Bacteria in your gut produce a chemical that increases fat storage Like other ecosystems in nature, our body has its own mix of commensal bacteria that help us thrive. Acetate produced by bacteria metabolizing fat in your intestines triggers the production of grehlin.

Posted on November 6, 2017November 16, 2021 by Osama Alian 644 views

Since the invention of the microscope and discovery of microbes, their role in everyday life has been, to say the least, contentious. As…