Cyanobacteria are attractive organisms for the bio-production of fuels, chemicals and drugs but have the drawback that most strains in common use grow slowly. Scientists now report that they have ...

March 25 (UPI) --North America's bald eagles, once severely threatened by DDT exposure, have rebounded dramatically over the last 50 years. In pockets of the American South, however, scientists have ...

Researchers describe the genome of a cyanobacterium, OmCyn, that has previously gone undetected in marine metagenomics studies due to its symbiotic relationship with a dinoflagellate, the eukaryote in ...

The cyanobacterium Aetokthonos hydrillicola produces not just one, but two highly potent toxins. Scientists describe the second toxin, which had remained elusive until now. Even in low concentrations, ...

Researchers from Japan and Thailand have discovered that the cyanobacterium A. sacrum (Suizenji Nori in Japanese) produces two types of saclipins under drought stress. The compounds have UV-absorbing, ...

Cyanobacteria are one of the unsung heroes of life on Earth. They first evolved to perform photosynthesis about 2.4 billion years ago, pumping tons of oxygen into the atmosphere – a period known as ...