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The benefits of bacteria / by Snedden, Robert.(CARDINAL)317520;
Includes bibliographical references (page 47) and index.Discusses the beneficial uses of bacteria in applications ranging from brewing and baking to industry and sewage treatment.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Industrial microbiology; Microbial biotechnology;
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The benefits of bacteria / by Snedden, Robert.(CARDINAL)317520;
Includes bibliographical references (page 47) and index.Discusses the beneficial uses of bacteria in applications ranging from brewing and baking to industry and sewage treatment.7.05-85-8Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Industrial microbiology; Microbial biotechnology; Bacteria; Microbiology; Biotechnology; Bacteria; Microbiology.; Biotechnology.; Bacteria;
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Microbes to the rescue : using bacteria, algae and fungi to clean up the planet / by Ridge, Yolanda,1973-author.(CARDINAL)596196; Orca Book Publishers,publisher.(CARDINAL)889571;
Includes bibliographical references (page 48), glossary, and index.Tackling pollution -- The plastic problem -- Foods for the future -- Energizing Earth."Part of the nonfiction Orca Footprints series for middle-grade readers and illustrated with color photographs throughout, this book explores how microbes can help address some of the most pressing environmental challenges on Earth."--
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Informational works.; Microbiology; Microbial biotechnology; Microorganisms; Environmental protection; Nature;
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My first book of microbes : viruses, bacteria, fungi and more / by Ferrón, Sheddad Kaid-Sala,author.(CARDINAL)678783; Altarriba, Eduard,illustrator.(CARDINAL)356116;
But how big are microbes? -- Microscopes -- Cells -- Types of microbes -- Bacteria -- Types of bacteria -- Bacterial reproduction -- We are not alone -- Archaea -- Fungi -- Protozoa -- Algae -- Viruses -- Types of viruses -- Phages -- Microbial biotechnology -- "Mini" multicellular organisms -- Infections -- Washing your hands -- Antibiotics -- Bacterial resistance -- Transmission -- Our defenses -- Memory cells, immunization -- Vaccines -- Epidemics -- Vaccines protect us all -- Great epidemics and pandemics in history -- Covid-19.My First Book of Microbes is the ideal STEM book for children it uses fascinating bite-size facts, clear and simple explanations, and attractive and absorbing illustrations to demystify the hidden world of microbes. You'll discover what they are, where they come from and what they do, as well as which ones are good and which can be harmful. Especially pertinent are the clear explanations about how viruses spread, the role of antibodies and the importance of vaccines essential understanding for us all during this time of the COVID-19 pandemic; in fact, there's a whole spread dedicated to COVID-19. Packed with clever analogies that make understanding a difficult topic easy, this STEM title is perfect for young budding scientists with an active and enquiring mind and for people of any age who are interested in learning about the natural world and the human body.Ages 8+.
Subjects: Microorganisms; Bacteria; Viruses; Fungi;
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Brock biology of microorganisms / by Madigan, Michael T.,1949-(CARDINAL)333909; Martinko, John M.,author.(CARDINAL)333908; Parker, Jack,1945-author.(CARDINAL)333907;
Microorganisms and microbiology -- Macromolecules -- Cell biology -- Nutrition and metabolism -- Microbial growth -- Principles of microbial molecular biology -- Regulation of gene expression -- Viruses -- Microbial genetics -- Genetic engineering and biotechnology -- Industrial microbiology/biocatalysis -- Microbial evolution and systematics -- Prokaryotic diversity : Bacteria -- Prokaryotic diversity : The archaea -- Metabolic diversity -- Microbial ecology -- Eukaryotic microorganisms -- Microbial growth control -- Most-parasite relationships -- Concepts of immunology -- Clinical and diagnostic microbiology and immunology -- Edipdemiology and public health microbiology -- Person-to-person microbial diseases -- Animal-transmitted, vectorborne, and common-source microbial diseases.Introductory text in microbiology, covering the major classical concepts essential for understanding the science.
Subjects: Microbiology.;
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Beautiful bacteria : encounters in the microuniverse / by Danino, Tal,Author(local)tlcaut1724674634485940432; Muniz, VikWriter of forewordauthor of introduction, etc.(DLC)no 97071095;
Includes bibliographical references (page 178).A leading bacteria scientist combines unique scientific and artistic techniques, along with accessible text to reveal the microbial world within and around us. Beautiful Bacteria merges stunning imagery with a new way of looking at something we interact with every day. Each chapter introduces the different types of bacteria, illustrated with singularly beautiful images of these minute life forms and an approachable text that explains where bacteria is located and what it does. Much as New York Times bestseller I Contain Multitudes did, Beautiful Bacteria brings the invisible world that has shaped our species to life. While we know microbes in our world are relevant, the focus of this book is what the invisible, microbial world looks like, where it comes from, and where new discoveries and biotechnology are taking us. Looking at the microbial world reveals countless questions about life and connects with the personal realm of bacteria in our daily lives. From the dazzling patterns of Proteus mirabilis to the shimmering fractals of E. coli and more, each chapter touches upon the little-seen microscopic universe and the impact it has on our macroscopic society, and sheds light on how we coexist in an increasingly biotechnological world.
Subjects: Bacteria; Science in art.; Biotechnology in art.; Bacteria; Art and science;
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Algal culturing techniques / by Andersen, Robert A.(Robert Arthur),1948-(CARDINAL)352062;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes."Algal Culturing Techniques presents a comprehensive reference on all aspects of the isolation and cultivation of marine and freshwater algae. Researchers and others studying limnology, oceanography, phycology, or microbial ecology will enjoy the hands-on methodology for culturing a variety of algae from fresh and marine environments. Researchers in industry, such as aquaculture, pharmaceuticals, foodstuffs, and biotechnology will find an authoritative and comprehensive reference."--Jacket.
Subjects: Algae culture;
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One plus one equals one : symbiosis and the evolution of complex life / by Archibald, John,author.(CARDINAL)378564;
Includes bibliographical references and index.It is natural to look at biotechnology in the 21st century with a mix of wonder and fear. But biotechnology is not as 'unnatural' as one might think. All living organisms use the same molecular processes to replicate their genetic material and the same basic code to 'read' their genes. The similarities can be seen in their DNA. Here, John Archibald shows how evolution has been 'plugging-and-playing' with the subcellular components of life from the very beginning and continues to do so today. For evidence, we need look no further than the inner workings of our own cells. Molecular biology has allowed us to gaze back more than three billion years, revealing the microbial mergers and acquisitions that underpin the development of complex life. One Plus One Equals One tells the story of how we have come to this realization and its implications.
Subjects: Evolution (Biology); Molecular biology.; Symbiosis.;
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Microbiology for dummies / by Stearns, Jennifer C.(CARDINAL)789179; Kaiser, Julie.(CARDINAL)789181; Surette, Michael G.(CARDINAL)789180;
pt. I. Getting started with microbiology -- 1. Microbiology and you -- Why microbiology? -- Introducing microorganisms -- Deconstructing microbiology -- 2. Microbiology : the young science -- Before microbiology : misconceptions and superstitions -- Discovering microorganisms -- Debunking the myth of spontaneous generation -- Improving medicine, from surgery to antibiotics and more -- Looking at microbiology outside the human body -- The future of microbiology -- Frontiers -- Challenges -- 3. Microbes : they're everywhere and the can do everything -- Habitat diversity -- Metabolic diversity -- Getting energy -- Capturing carbon -- Making enzymes -- Secondary metabolism -- The intersection of microbes and everyone else --pt. II. Balancing the dynamics of microbial life -- Seeing the shapes of cells -- Life on a minute scale : considering the size of prokaryotes -- The cell : an overview -- Scaling the outer membrane and cell walls -- Examining the outer membrane -- Exploring the cell wall -- Other important cell structures -- Divining cell division -- Tackling transport systems -- Passive transport -- Active transport -- Keeping things clean with efflux pumps -- Getting around with locomotion -- 5. Making sense of metabolism -- Converting with enzymes -- In charge of energy : oxidation and reduction -- Donating and accepting electrons -- Bargaining with energy-rich compounds -- Storing energy for later -- Breaking down catabolism -- Digesting glycolysis -- Stepping along with respiration and electron carriers -- Moving with the proton motive force -- Turning the citric acid cycle -- Stacking up with anabolism -- Creating amino acids and nucleic acids -- Making sugars and polysaccharides -- Putting together fatty acids and lipids -- 6. Getting the gist of microbial genetics -- Organizing genetic material -- DNA : the recipe for life -- Perfect plasmids -- DNA replication -- Assembling the cellular machinery -- Making messenger RNA -- Other types of RNA -- synthesizing protein -- DNA regulation -- Regulating protein function -- Changing the genetic code -- Slight adjustments -- Major rearrangements -- 7. Measuring microbial growth -- Getting growth requirements right -- Physical requirements -- Chemical requirements -- Culturing microbes in the lab -- Observing microbes -- Counting small things -- Seeing morphology -- Calculating cell division and population growth -- dividing cells -- Following growth phases -- Inhibiting microbial growth -- Physical methods -- Disinfectants --pt. III. Sorting out microbial diversity -- 8. Appreciating microbial ancestry -- Where did microbes come from? -- Tracing the origins of life -- Diversifying early prokaryotes -- The impact of prokaryotes on the early earth -- Hitching a ride : endosymbiosis -- Understanding evolution -- Studying evolution -- Choosing marker genes -- Seeing the direction of gene transfer in prokaryotes -- Classifying and naming microbes -- Climbing the tree of life -- 9. Harnessing energy, fixing carbon -- Forging ahead with autotrophic processes -- Fixing carbon -- Using the energy in light -- Harvesting light : chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls -- Helping photosynthesis out : carotenoids and phycobilins -- Generating oxygen (or not) : oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis -- Getting energy from the elements : chemolithotrophy -- Harnessing hydrogen -- Securing electrons from sulfur -- Pumping iron -- Oxidizing nitrate and ammonia -- 10. comparing respiration and fermentation -- Lifestyles of the rich and facultative -- Digging into respiration -- Spinning the citric acid cycle -- Stepping down the electron transport chain -- Respiring anaerobically -- Figuring out fermentation -- 11. Uncovering a variety of habitats -- Defining a habitat -- Understanding nutrient cycles -- Carbon cycling -- Nitrogen cycling -- Sulfur cycling -- Phosphorous cycles in the ocean -- Microbes socializing in communities -- Using quorum sensing to communication -- Living in biofilms -- Exploring microbial mats -- Discovering microbes in aquatic and terrestrial habitats -- Thriving in water -- Swarming soils -- Getting along with plants and animals -- Living with plants -- Living with animals -- Living with insects -- Living with ocean creatures -- Tolerating extreme locations -- Detecting microbes in unexpected places --pt. IV. Meeting the microbes -- 12. Meet the prokaryotes -- Getting to know the bacteria -- The gram-negative bacteria : proteobacteria -- More gram-negative bacteria -- The gram-positive bacteria -- Acquainting yourself with the archaea -- Scalding : extreme thermophiles -- Acidic : extreme acidophiles -- Salty : extreme halophiles -- Not terribly extreme archaea -- 13. Say hello to eukaryotes -- Fun with fungi -- Figuring out fungal physiology -- Itemizing fungal diversity -- Interacting with plant roots -- Ascomycetes -- MUshrooms : basidiomycetes -- Perusing the protists -- Making us sick : apicoplexans -- Making plants sick : oomycetes -- chasing amoeba and ciliates -- Encountering the algae -- 14. Examining the vastness of viruses -- Hijacking cells -- Frugal viral structure -- Simplifying viral function -- Making heads or tails of bacteriophage -- Lytic phage -- Temperate phage -- Transposable phage -- Discussing viruses of eukaryotes -- Infecting animal cells -- Following plant viruses -- How host cells fight back -- Restriction enzymes -- CRISPR -- Interfering with RNA viruses : RNAi --pt. V. Seeing the impact of microbes -- 15. Understanding microbes in human health and disease -- Clarifying the host immune response -- Putting up barriers to infection -- Inflammation -- Innate immunity -- Adaptive immunity -- Antibodies -- Relying on antimicrobials for treating disease -- Fundamental features of antibiotics -- Targets of destruction -- Unraveling microbial drug resistance -- Discovering new antibiotics -- Searching out superbugs -- Vancomycin-resistant enterococci -- Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus -- Clostridium difficile -- Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases -- Prebiotics and probiotics -- Antiviral drugs -- 16. Putting microbes to work : biotechnology -- Using recombinant DNA technology -- Making the insert -- Employing plasmids -- Restriction enzymes -- Getting microbes to take up DNA -- Using promoters to drive expression -- Expression vectors -- Folding proteins -- Metabolic load -- Long, multigene constructs -- Providing therapies -- Improving antibiotics -- Developing vaccines -- Using microbes industrially -- Protecting plants wit microbial insecticides -- Making biofuels -- Bioleaching metals -- Cleaning up with microbes -- 17. Fighting microbial diseases -- Protecting public health : epidemiology -- Tracking diseases -- Investigating outbreaks -- Identifying a microbial pathogen -- characterizing morphology -- Using biochemical tests -- Typing strains with phage -- Using serology -- Testing antibiotic susceptibility -- Understanding vaccines -- How vaccines work -- Ranking the types of vaccines --pt. VI. New frontiers in microbiology -- 18. Teasing apart communities -- Studying microbial communities -- Borrowing from ecology -- Seeing what sets microbial communities apart from plants and animals -- Observing communities : microbial ecology methods -- Selecting something special with enrichment -- Seeing cells through lenses -- Measuring microbial activity -- Identifying species using marker genes -- Getting the hang of microbial genetics and systematics -- Sequencing whole genomes -- Using metagenomics to study microbial communities -- Reading microbial transcriptomics -- Figuring out proteomics and metabolomics -- Looking for microbial dark matter -- 19. Synthesizing life -- Regulating genes : the lac operon -- Using a good natural system -- Improving a good system -- Designing genetic networks -- Switching from one state to another -- Oscillating between states -- Keeping signals short -- The synthetic biologist's toolbox -- Making it modular -- Participating in iGEM competition --pt. VII. The part of tens -- 20. Ten (or so) diseases caused by microbes -- Ebola -- Anthrax -- Influenza -- Tuberculosis -- HIV -- Cholera -- Smallpox -- Primary amoebic menigoencephalitis -- The unknown -- 21. Ten great uses for microbes -- Making delicious foods -- Growing legumes -- Brewing beer, liquor, and wine -- Killing insect pests -- Treating sewage -- Contributing to medicine -- Setting up your aquarium -- Making and breaking down biodegradable plastics -- Turning over compostable waste -- Maintaining a balance -- 22. Ten great uses for microbiology -- Medical care -- Dental care -- Veterinary care -- Monitoring the environment -- Making plants happy -- Keeping fish swimming strong -- Producing food, wine, and beer -- Science hacking -- Looking for microbes in clean rooms -- Producing pharmaceuticals.Does microbiology make your head spin? The authors make the subject accessible and fun, to help you grasp life at the cellular level. Whether you need to score big at exam time, or just want to satisfy your curiosity, this guide will help you discover the main types of microorganisms and the benefits of their microbial communities.--
Subjects: Microbiology;
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Hunter's diseases of occupations. by Raffle, Andrew.(CARDINAL)196011; Hunter, Donald,1898-1978.Diseases of occupations.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.(cont) Non-ionizing radiation and the eye / K.B. Mills, R. Brown and D.C. Saunders -- Extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields (EMF) / Leonard A. Sagan and Leeka I. Kheifets -- Inorganic dusts / P.C. Elmes -- Organic dusts: byssinosis / C.A.C. Pickering -- Occupational asthma / A.J. Newmann Taylor -- Extrinsic allergic alveolitis / A.J. Newman Taylor -- Indoor air pollution / P. Sherwood Burge -- Muscular and skeletal problems -- Repeated movements and repeated trauma / B.L. Hazleman -- Back pain / J.D.G. Troup -- Diseases associated with microbiological agents -- Microbial disease / C.J. Ellis and I.S. Symington -- Biotechnology / A.N. Cottam -- Mental ill-health at work -- Stress at work / Ben Fletcher and Fiona Jones -- Substance abuse and the workplace / Jonathan Chick -- Clinical assessment and management / Francis Creed and Elizabeth McCloy -- Occupational cancer -- Biological mechanisms / Stanley Venitt -- Clinical and epidemiological aspects / J.M. Harrington and R. Saracci -- Occupational diseases of the skin / C.J. Stevenson.(cont) Reproduction and work -- Reproductive hazards at work / S.M. Barlow, A.D. Dayan and C.J. Powell -- Evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans / International Agency for Research on Cancer -- CAS numbers for chemicals discussed.General considerations -- Occupational history / W.R. Lee -- Role of government in preventing ill health at work / J.T. Carter -- State compensation for industrial injuries and prescribed diseases / F.G. Ward and A. Brooks -- Medicolegal reports / D. Kloss -- Epidemiology of occupational disease / David Coggon -- Diseases associated with chemical agents -- Absorption of chemicals and mechanisms of detoxification / P.G. Blain -- Neurotoxic effects of workplace exposures / N.M. Cherry -- Metals / H.A. Waldron and A. Scott -- Organic chemical compounds: aliphatic chemicals / L.S. Levy and W.R. Lee -- Organic chemical compounds: aromatic chemicals / Tar-Ching Aw -- Gases / Peter J. Baxter -- Diseases associated with physical agents -- Sound, infrasound and ultrasound / R. Hinchcliffe -- Vibration / W. Taylor -- Heat and cold / W.R. Keatinge, E.H.N. Oakley and A.P.H. Steel -- Raised barometric pressure / David H. Elliott -- Reduced barometric pressure / Peter Howard -- Working at high altitude / P.J.G. Forster -- Ionizing radiations / R.J. Berry.
Subjects: Occupational diseases.;
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