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HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" Scientists discover new antibiotic in tropical forestMorning Ag Clips, 11/5/2019Scientists from Rutgers University and around the world have discovered an antibiotic produced by a soil bacterium from a Mexican tropical forest that may help lead to a "plant probiotic," more robust plants and other antibiotics... "We hope to show the bacterium can be used as a 'plant probiotic' because phazolicin will prevent other, potentially harmful bacteria from growing in the root system of agriculturally important plants," said senior author?Konstantin Severinov, a principal investigator at the?Waksman Institute of Microbiology?and a professor of molecular biology and biochemistry in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.Scrubbing Your House Of Bacteria Could Clear The Way For FungusNPR, 11/6/2019You might think that the more you clean, the less germy your home is... "We create the built environment with so many artificial materials," says?Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, a professor of microbiology and health at?Rutgers University?and a co-author on the study. "We are living enclosed in houses with decreased bacterial diversity from the environment, and increasing the diversity of chemicals that we observe." Some of the bacteria we're shutting out are probably helpful to humans, like good gut bacteria. The different chemicals and fungi were found not just in homes, she says, but on the skin of human bodies.Rutgers Food Innovation Center client wins N.J. Immigrant Entrepreneur AwardMorning Ag Clips, 11/6/2019Sandeep Agarwal, president & CEO of Pure Indian Foods, a client of the?Rutgers Food Innovation Center?(FIC), was the recipient of the Caspar Wistar Award for Growth, one of the New Jersey Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards presented by the Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce (MCRCC) and Einstein Alley, a private, non-profit economic development initiative located in Central New Jersey... "It is absolutely wonderful that MCRCC and Einstein Alley are recognizing the great contributions made by immigrant entrepreneurs of New Jersey," said?Richard McArdle, executive director of Rutgers FIC.So Your Adult Child Moved Back Home. Here's How to Set Limits--FastMoney, 11/6/2019Welcoming an adult child home after college graduation is a shift more middle-age Americans will face as their kids, pressured by student loan debt and rising living costs, return to their childhood homes. Here's how to welcome your college grad home in a 401(k)-friendly way. A couple hundred dollars will do for rent, says?Barbara O'Neill, a professor of financial resource management at?Rutgers University. The fee allows parents to recoup some of the costs of having another person in the house, from higher water bills to more frequent grocery store trips. And it teaches young adults to pay for some of their own expenses. "They need to learn all their money isn't party money," O'Neill says.Red algae thrive despite ancestor's massive loss of genesMorning Ag Clips, 11/7/2019You'd think that losing 25 percent of your genes would be a big problem for survival. But not for red algae, including the seaweed used to wrap sushi. An ancestor of red algae lost about a quarter of its genes roughly one billion years ago, but the algae still became dominant in near-shore coastal areas around the world, according to Rutgers University-New Brunswick Professor?Debashish Bhattacharya, who co-authored a study in the journal Nature Communications.Urban Apartments Can House More Diverse Fungi Than Huts in the Rainforest, Study FindsNewsweek, 11/7/2019Cleaning chemicals used in urban homes create environments fertile for the rampant growth of fungus, while homes deep in the Amazon have fresher air and contain organisms that are more "natural" for humans, according to a study from?Rutgers University. The study, published Monday in Nature Microbiology, found that the more urbanized a settlement was - meaning the more densely populated - the more diverse the biome of the settlement's homes and its inhabitants were, especially when it came to fungi.Harvest Time for Cranberries in New Jersey's Pine BarrensTap Into, 11/7/2019Growing cranberries is a family business in New Jersey, with a lifestyle that involves intense work during a growing season, nurturing plants and flooding fields for gathering fruit. Nobody knows this better than Bill Cutts, one of three generations of family members who are now reaping the harvest deep in New Jersey's Pine Barrens. The Cutts family has been farming blueberries and cranberries in the Pine Barrens since 1906, also selling produce and chickens locally during the Great Depression. The farm has 29 cranberry bogs over its 128 acres, primarily growing traditional varieties such as the Early Blacks and Stevens as well as some newer cranberry varieties developed by?Rutgers University.Atlantic County Master Gardeners win at horticultural society contestThe Press of Atlantic City, 11/11/2019Rutgers Master Gardeners?of Atlantic County received acclaim in the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's 2019 Garden Contest, the Rutgers Cooperative Extensio announced.IFNH research day features cutting edge researchMorning Ag Clips, 11/11/2019The?New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health?(IFNH) hosted its first annual IFNH Research Day on November 1... IFNH interim director?Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello?acknowledged the Center, Program and Core directors as well as the presenters and students for the successful execution of the program and the representation of their work and its role in the Institute’s mission. "It has been a year of changes and self-assessment that has led us to a clearer image of the IFNH and how we interconnect our academic communities to foster multidisciplinary research in food and nutrition," said Dominguez-Bello.How Philly muralist Jimmy Glossblack went from tagging trains to selling art to Comcast and GoogleNew York Daily News, 11/12/2019Before muralist?Jimmy McMenamin?earned thousands of dollars for his artwork, he dug deep into graffiti culture and honed his technique for a decade by tagging freight trains in New Jersey. Fast forward to the present, and Jimmy Glossblack as he's known professionally has expanded from his graffiti roots to become one of the Philadelphia region's premier muralists. After graduating in 2007 from?Rutgers University?with a degree in Natural Resource Mangements, Glossblack worked in several roles with hope of building a career in fish and wildlife or marine sciences. But these years, he recalled, were also his busiest for graffiti, which he started while at Rutgers.We invite you to send an email to?InTheNews@aesop.rutgers.edu?alerting us when you are quoted in a story or if your program is mentioned in the news. Please send links of news,?as it happens, as some media outlets do not retain online links beyond a week.Visit the newly redesigned SEBS and NJAES Newsroom at?sebsnjaesnews.rutgers.edu. ................
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