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10.12.2008 Tiny knights in shining armor – bacteria detoxify deadly seawater

Some marine bacteria produce hydrogen sulphide, which is toxic to animals. Scientists now discovered that bacteria also protect marine animals from this toxic gas. A bacterial bloom detoxified a vast expanse of hydrogen sulphide-containing water off the coast of Namibia, before it could unfold it...

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31.03.2009 Advanced colour photography – a new method of spectral analysis gets to the bottom of single cells and biofilms

Investigations of the inner life of single cells usually require the destruction of these cells in order to extract and quantify their content. Until now this rendered repeated measurements and studies of temporal developments impossible. A recent development at the Max-Planck-Institute for Marin...

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08.06.2009 Sequencing the unseen majority in the World´s Oceans

Research Saling Yacht Sorcerer II visits Helgoland to cooperate with German marine researchers

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21.08.2009 What sponges, beards and the lung have in common

Max Planck mathematicians and their colleagues in Poland developed a novel criterion for the calculation of mass and energy transport in porous systems

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02.09.2009 Science Train stops in Bremen

The exhibition train of the Max Planck Society will offer interesting insights into science and technology.

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19.11.2009 Bremen Marine Science Team wins IEEE - OES Award

Bremen Marine Science Team wins IEEE - OES Award for organizing the
OCEANS ´09 IEEE Bremen "Balancing technology with future needs"

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02.02.2010 The greatest Chemists

Microorganisms are “the greatest chemists” of our planet. As far as we know, every chemical reaction that is thermodynamically feasible is exploited by these organisms to sustain growth or at least survival.

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24.03.2010 Bacteria produce oxygen even without light

Bacteria produce oxygen even without light
The molecular secrets of a bacterium which produces its own oxygen to use the green house gas methane was unravelled.

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24.09.2010 Advances in Microbial Ecophysiology and Biochemistry – Symposium

Advances in Microbial Ecophysiology and Biochemistry – Symposium

Advances in Microbial Ecophysiology and Biochemistry the symposium with Martin Polz, Dianne K. Newman, Birgit Alber, Johannes Gescher, Frank E. Löffler and Matthias Boll will be held on 23. September 2010 at the Max-Planck Institute ...

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22.12.2010 Historic El Nino events 125 000 years ago

Historic El Nino events to blame for heavy rainfalls in the Northern Atacama Desert 125 000 years ago.

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26.01.2011 Climate secrets locked at the bottom of the Mariana Trench

The deepest part of the ocean traps amounts of carbon.

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12.05.2011 New standards for genomic data

How to handle priceless sequence data
MIMARKS and MIxS - novel minimum information standards for marker genes and any (x) sequence in environmental research

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08.06.2011 EuroMarine

EuroMarine - A new multidisciplinary marine network: From genes to ecosystems

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10.08.2011 Hydrogen highway in the deep sea

Max Planck Researchers discover hydrogen-powered symbiotic bacteria in deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels

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21.09.2011 Springs of Life in the Dead Sea

Scientists discover dense and diverse microbial communities in and around fresh water springs on the Dead Sea floor

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03.10.2011 Molecular mechanism of the anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) unraveled

Nitric oxide and the rocket fuel hydrazine are key molecules in the anammox reaction

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13.10.2011 International research consortium sets new standards for genome research

12th GSC workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen

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24.11.2011 Young female Max Planck researcher wins UNESCO-L’Oréal sponsorship award

Judith Klatt of the Max Planck Intitute in Bremen is awarded sponsorship grant for mothers in research

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13.01.2012 From Genes to Ecosystem

EuroMarine General Assembly in Bremen
More than 100 international scientists of the EU multidisciplinary marine network EuroMarine meet on 17 January for three days in Bremen.

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28.02.2012 Introns found in bacterial 16S rRNA

Max Planck scientists from Bremen identify long pieces of non-coding DNA in the most important phylogenetic marker gene in bacteria

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