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Biobased agri-innovation with microbiome products – EU lags behind US, Brazil and New Zealand, say microbiome researchers
15 Oct 2022
Interview with Dr Angela Sessitsch, Head of Bioresources at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, and Coordinator of the HORIZON2020-funded project “MicrobiomeSupport” about microbiome-based innovations as a biobased technology helping mitigate the current food crisis and climate change.
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Shining light on ‘twilight zone’ sponges and their microbial cohabitants
01 Sept 2022
Living organisms are a rich source of natural products that can benefit humans. Pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and skin care products are among the many commodities with increasingly natural and enhanced functionality thanks to biomolecules. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme and high-tech genomics approaches, the COSMos project has provided an unprecedented data set pointing to the natural product potential of rarely studied mesophotic sponges and the microbes living in them.
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Searching The Ocean's Depths For Future Medicines
30 Aug 2022
Join host Emily Kwong for this Short Wave podcast episode plunging into the ocean off the west coast of Ireland down to where there's no light and the temperature is just above freezing. That's where underwater chemist Sam Afoullouss sends a deep sea robot to carefully collect samples of marine organisms, searching for unique chemistry that may one day inspire a medicine.
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MARBLES researchers’ university project shortlisted in sustainability awards
17 Aug 2022
MARBLES partner the University of Aberdeen (UNIABDN) has had five transformational projects shortlisted in an internationally recognised Green Gown Awards scheme celebrating sustainability excellence.
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Hope for new drugs arises from the sea
08 Aug 2022
Researchers are discovering compounds that marine creatures make to defend themselves that could also yield lifesaving medicines.
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New interactive microscopy exhibition set for Micro Day in Leiden
25 Jul 2022
A new immersive exhibition is set to be launched in Leiden this October. The microscopy and microbe exhibition, organised by the MARBLES project, Institute of Biology (Leiden University) and Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, will be held in the museum to celebrate Micro Day in Leiden, the EU City of Science 2022.
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Managing bacterial infections in aquaculture enters a new phage
11 Jul 2022
Researchers from the UK, Norway and Denmark have teamed up to develop a safe and efficient bacteriophage therapy to control Pasteurella bacteria in Atlantic salmon farms.
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Researchers call for the study and protection of the marine microbiome
07 Jul 2022
A study recently published in the journal Nature Microbiology highlights priorities for understanding and protecting the ocean microbiome.
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Plastic pollution in our oceans may harbour novel antibiotics
27 Jun 2022
5-13 million metric tons of plastic pollution enters the ocean each year, from large floating debris to microplastics onto which microbes can form ecosystems, potentially making plastic debris a good candidate for antibiotic production.
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Marine microbiomes: researchers have found new bacteria species and previously unknown natural products
22 Jun 2022
Using DNA data, researchers including MARBLES partner Eidegenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerichethz (ETHZ) have examined seawater to find not only new bacteria species, but also previously unknown natural products!
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MARBLES E-Newsletter 2 - Out now!
08 Jun 2022
MARBLES E-Newsletter Issue 2 has been published, you can read it here!
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Awaken sleeping antibiotics with ERC Advanced Grant
01 Jun 2022
Our MARBLES coordinator Gilles van Wezel was recently awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant of €2.5 million for a new research project called COMMUNITY.