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Scientists have uncovered thousands of bacterial DNA fragments hidden inside cockroaches for millions of years. The ...

Four antibiotic compounds produced in Streptomyces bacteria attack multiple parts of an essential metabolic pathway.

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Research has revealed how bacteria rely on circadian clocks to control the spread of their multicellular colonies. The ...

Soil bacteria make cocktails of molecules that synergistically inhibit the growth of microbial pathogens — suggesting a ...

Researchers found that highly drug-resistant bacteria from hospitals are also resistant to glyphosate, a commonly used ...

In his 1989 book Wonderful Life, the late Harvard scientist Stephen Jay Gould imagined rewinding life’s history to an early ...

Most animals straightforwardly inherit their genetic material. DNA passes from parent to offspring, generation after ...

It’s easy to see why horizontal gene transfer would be common among microbes. They often live in complex communities that are ...

The Plasma Care UVC technology developed by South Korean carmakers Hyundai and Kia promieses to kill 99.99 percent of ...

This corrective to our habitual emphasis on competition had me writing ‘wow’ in the margins again and again ...