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Believe it or not, scientists in India have genetically engineered bacteria to perform mathematical operations, including ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

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A team tested different combinations of bacterial strains and identified a group of eighteen that suppressed ...

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Transient' populations of gut bacteria may contribute to the development of chronic liver disease and diabetes, but a ...

Barquera has been awarded a grant of nearly $3.3 million over five years from the National Institute of Health's National ...

One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

The students learned about transferring kinetic energy into electricity through a hands-on experiment and created a ...