bacteria
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Mycobacterium leprae: Ghost genes with a fear factor
Leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium leprae, an organism with a significantly reduced genome size. This forced…
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What is Phytopathology?
Plants, including tomatoes, are constantly under attack by microscopic organisms, like bacteria and viruses, and larger…
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Employee of the Month – Hire a Microbe to Do Your Work
Thought that microbes were only important for our health and making food for us? Turns out…
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The Path of Least Resistance: Our Relationship with Antibiotics
“They think they can beat us with their antibiotics?! Silly humans…”
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Mind over microbe: Is your gut trying to kill your resolve?
Already broken your New Year’s resolution? Can you blame it on your microbes?
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When a Wall is just a Wall
Take a break from arguing about political walls and learn what a cell wall can do
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Seeing is Believing – How Can We Visualize Tiny Colorless Bacteria?
How this microbiologist makes her experiments look like teeny tiny raves
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Culturing the least cultured members of society
Bacteria are everywhere, and we are very effective at growing billions of them in our guts,…
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Hit the Road Jack
Picture swimming in a pool of honey. Not the easiest of tasks right? This is how…