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The Scientist Speaks - Rising From the Dead: How Antibiotic Resistance Genes Travel Between Current and Past Bacteria

Heather Kittredge and Sarah Evans discuss the environmental conditions that facilitate natural transformation in bacteria’s native habitat.

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Biophysicist Howard Berg Dies at 87

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Deep Sea Microbes Produce Graphite-like Carbon

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An Earthy-Smelling Substance, 1964

Lisa Winter | | 3 min read

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Tiny Hitchhikers Reveal Turtles’ Movements and Foraging Ecology

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Image of the Day: Inflamed Mouse Follicles

Emily Makowski | | 2 min read

Image of the Day: Microscopic Creatures

Emily Makowski | | 1 min read

Image of the Day: An Infectious Glow

Carolyn Wilke | | 1 min read

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Herpes Viruses Implicated in Alzheimer’s Disease

Anna Azvolinsky | | 5 min read

From Little Things Big Things Grow

Bob Grant | | 3 min read

How Bacteria Eat Penicillin

Shawna Williams | | 3 min read

Cancer-Fighting Chemical Found in Human Skin Bacteria

Diana Kwon | | 2 min read

How Do Infant Immune Systems Learn to Tolerate Gut Bacteria?

Diana Kwon | | 7 min read

Cataloging Fungal Life in Antarctic Seas

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Neslihan Taş Studies Permafrost Microbes as They’re Roused by a Warming Climate

Shawna Williams | | 3 min read

Do Microbes Trigger Alzheimer’s Disease?

Jill U. Adams | | 10 min read

Emily Balskus Pins Down the Chemistry and Metabolism of Human Microbiomes

Vijay Shankar Balakrishnan | | 2 min read

New Antibiotic Resistance Genes Found in Soil Microbes

Ashley Yeager | | 3 min read

Arming Synthetic Bacteria Against Cancer

Anna Azvolinsky | | 4 min read

Archaea’s Role in Carbon Cycle

Catherine Offord | | 1 min read

The Mycobiome

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The Fungi Within

Mahmoud Ghannoum | | 4 min read

Lost Colonies

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