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Soil microbes are reservoir for antibiotic resistance
Bacteria that live in dirt are surprisingly resistant to antibiotics, even those they presumably have never before encountered.
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EarthGlobal warming may already be a killer
Earth's rising temperatures may be a precipitating factor in the extinctions of dozens of tropical frog species.
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TechArtificial Animalcules
Advances that include the first swimming micromachine and novel designs for similar devices are deepening scientists' understanding of the bizarre world of microscale liquids.
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Perhaps in addition to using a friendly strain of Clostridium difficile to crowd out the disease-causing variety in the gut, other species of benign bacteria could be reintroduced at the same time.