Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops?
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Searching for life beyond our teeming planet has led to some innovative collaborative approaches to generating knowledge right here at home.
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The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
In the largest microbial eukaryote genetic sequencing effort ever attempted, researchers are investigating the transcriptomes of 700 marine algae species.
Researchers uncover a diverse microbial community living beneath 27 meters of ice in Antarctica’s Lake Vida.
The largest collection of genetic and medical data in the United States links telomeres and genetic variants to longevity and disease.
A new study reveals a large mix of microbes in most human belly buttons.
The malaria vaccine under development by GSK and the PATH initiative only protects about one in three babies, though some researchers say those odds are better than nothing.
A third dose of the MMR vaccine given during an intense outbreak appears to have provided herd-immunity to control the spread of the disease.
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