News
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Ironing out underarm odor
Chemicals that deprive bacteria of iron may improve deodorants.
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Bacterial genes and cell scaffolding
A bacterium may have revealed the origin of a key cell structure.
- Astronomy
Seeing Red: A cool revival of Hubble’s infrared camera
New images provide a graphic demonstration that the Hubble Space Telescope's infrared vision has been restored.
- Health & Medicine
Efficient Germ: Human body boosts power of cholera microbe
Some genes in the cholera-causing bacterium Vibrio cholerae are activated and others are silenced when the microbe passes through the human gut, changes that make the bacterium more virulent.
