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An obscure group of phages offers insights into elements of microbial warfare—and blueprints for new antibiotics.

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Q&A: What if Immune Cells Don’t Actually Detect Viruses and Bacteria?

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Best Bugs: How E. coli Evolves into a Stinkbug Symbiont

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Phages Treat Gut Inflammation in Mice

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Black Death Likely Originated in Central Asia

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Soil Microbes Sacrifice Ribosomes in Response to Warming

Researchers use bacterial whole genome sequencing to compare the phylogenetic relationship between environmental and clinical samples.

Aquatic Bacteria Reveal a Common Genetic Link to a Deadly Human Pathogen

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Study Questions Sterility of Snake and Spider Venoms

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Screen of 250,000 Species Reveals Tweaks to Genetic Code

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Longer Days Led to Oxygen Buildup on Early Earth: Study

Are Phages Overlooked Mediators of Health and Disease?

Infographic: Trans-kingdom Interactions in the Gut

When Is an Endosymbiont an Organelle?

A Lost Microbial World the scientist

Prehistoric Microbes Inhabit an Oasis in the Northern Mexican Desert

Opinion: Archaea Is Our Evolutionary Sister, Not Mother

Mitochondria’s Bacterial Origins Upended

Evolution’s Quick Pace Affects Ecosystem Dynamics

Inflammation Drives Gut Bacteria Evolution

Evolution of Kin Discrimination

Evolutionary Rewiring

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New Neurons Continue to Form in Adult Human Brains

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Moss Medicines: The Next Revolution in Biotech?

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Chemical Staples Keep Collagen from Falling Apart

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

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The Holy Grail Hunt in De Novo Antibody Design

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Weaving the Fabric of Cancer Research with Synthetic DNA

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Enhancing Elution of Plasmid DNA

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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