Shewanella bacteria generate energy for survival by transporting electrons to nearby mineral surfaces.
Shewanella bacteria generate energy for survival by transporting electrons to nearby mineral surfaces.
Research Associate, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Age: 27
Discoveries of microbial communities that transfer electrons between cells and across relatively long distances are launching a new field of microbiology.
Researchers find zero evidence for Lyme-induced autism.
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A newly developed drug, modeled after a bacteria-infecting virus, is less likely to become antibiotic resistant.
This dramatic science fiction film follows a grieving father using his research to understand his infant son’s gruesome death—and explores the culture and ethics of science along the way.
Living fossils not so fossilized; Canadian gov’t threatens scientists’ freedom to speak and publish; gene therapy for sensory disorders; an unusual theory of cancer; clues for an HIV vaccine
Satellites of the Golgi apparatus generate the microtubules used to grow outer dendrite branches in Drosophila neurons.