{"id":13207,"date":"2020-01-25T15:24:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T09:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13207"},"modified":"2020-01-25T15:24:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T09:54:20","slug":"this-word-means-archaea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/this-word-means-archaea\/","title":{"rendered":"This Word Means: Archaea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Scientists at the National Centre for Microbial Resource \u2014 National Centre for Cell Science (NCMR-NCCS) have discovered a new archaeon (a kind of microorganism) in Sambhar Salt Lake in Rajasthan.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Archaeon:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Archaea (singular archaeon) are a primitive group of microorganisms that thrive in extreme habitats such as hot springs, cold deserts and hypersaline lakes.<\/li><li>These slow-growing organisms are also present in the human gut and have a potential relationship with human health.However,as archaea are relatively poorly studied,little is known about how archaea behave in the human body.<\/li><li>They are also known for producing antimicrobial molecules and for antioxidant activity with applications in eco-friendly waste-water treatment.<\/li><li>Further,Archaea are extremely difficult to culture due to challenges in providing natural conditions in a laboratory setting.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Natrialba Swarupiae:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The new archaeon discovered in Sambhar Lake has been named Natrialba swarupiae after Dr Renu Swarup,Secretary,Department of Biotechnology for her initiative in supporting microbial diversity studies in the country.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Sambhar Lake:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sambhar Lake is India\u2019s largest inland saltwater lake situated in the state of Rajasthan.<\/li><li>The Lake was designated as a Ramsar site in 1990.It is also famous for salt production and is also an Important Bird Area(IBA)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About NCMR-NCCS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>National Centre for Microbial Resource(NCMR) was started as Microbial Culture Collection(MCC) in 2009.<\/li><li>It comes under the Department of Biotechnology (DBT),Government of India.<\/li><li>It\u2019s mandate is to preserve and catalogue the diversity of bacteria collected from different ecological niches from all over India and to make them available for biotechnological exploitation by researchers.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Scientists at the National Centre for Microbial Resource \u2014 National Centre for Cell Science (NCMR-NCCS) have discovered a new archaeon (a kind of microorganism) in Sambhar Salt Lake in Rajasthan. Facts: About Archaeon: Archaea (singular archaeon) are a primitive group of microorganisms that thrive in extreme habitats such as hot springs, cold deserts and hypersaline&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/this-word-means-archaea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Word Means: Archaea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2793,2794],"class_list":["post-13207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-archaea","tag-ncmr","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704748026},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}