The Methylobacterium discovered during this study isn’t harmful to the astronauts, either. “Needless to say, the ISS is a cleanly-maintained extreme environment.

As the scientists have now been able to demonstrate, Methylobacterium extorquens has nearly 150 genes that it needs specifically to grow on methanol. Of these, 95 had not been known before.

In addition to the Methylobacterium finding, the team discovered that cancer patients' urine samples had increased levels of gram-positive bacteria, including Staphylococcus and Actinomyces.

Scientists from the US isolated these strains belonging to the Methylobacterium genus that is associated with the root nodules and soil on the Earth. The discovery was announced in a paper in ...

They live primarily on plant leaves and occur in large numbers on every leaf. The bacterium most extensively researched is called Methylobacterium extorquens. A team led by Julia Vorholt, Professor of ...

Three new lifeforms have been discovered in different locations on the International Space Station (ISS), potentially offering researchers a new way to grow food in space. American and Indian ...

The new bacterial species, Methylobacterium ajmalii, has been found to bust stress that plants undergo in zero gravity in space. Plants, which grow on their own on Earth, ...

Utrisha N developed by Corteva agriscience is a nutrient efficiency biostimulant, containing the natural bacteria methylobacterium symbioticum, which fixes nitrogen from the air and converts it ...

The Methylobacterium discovered during this study isn’t harmful to the astronauts, either. “Needless to say, the ISS is a cleanly-maintained extreme environment.