In this activity the learner accesses information about the geography, geology, chemistry and biology of an acidic peat bog in order to gather the clues that they think are most relevant to the ...

Peat-bog fungi produce substances that kill tuberculosis-causing bacteria New study points to processes involving thiol compounds as potentially promising treatment targets Date: December 3, 2024 ...

A new paper in PLOS Biology (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002852) sampled 1,500 fungi species found in a peat bog in the Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Maine. All of them were exposed ...

Most gardeners live a long way from peat bogs and may not see the appeal or the value of them but every time someone uses peat they're contributing to the destruction of this special and important ...

An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to the bacterium that causes the human disease tuberculosis. The findings suggest that ...

In these bogs, fungi compete with mycobacteria to grow within a decomposing "gray layer" that, similarly to lesions found in the lungs of tuberculosis patients, is acidic, nutrient-poor, and ...

Over the past few centuries, and likely before then, men harvesting peat in European bogs have struck upon remarkable and, to the peat cutters, no doubt frightening discoveries. More than a ...

To explore potential targets for treatment-shortening strategies, Malhotra and colleagues turned to sphagnum peat bogs. These freshwater wetlands harbor abundant species of bacteria in the ...

The activity was apparently born from a discussion between regulars in a pub in Llanwrtyd Wells in 1976. The first Bog Snorkelling World Championship was held at the Waen Rhydd peat bog in 1985 ...

An ancient Cheshire peat bog is to be restored to wetland after plans to build 14 homes next to the site were approved. Environmental groups claimed years of peat extraction had caused "ongoing ...

An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species ... that showed robust induction of antimycobacterial activity upon exposure to live cells of Mtb,” they noted.

An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has revealed several species that produce substances toxic to the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis in humans. The results indicate that focusing ...