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5,618 results for: Bacteria

  1. Animals

    Bacterial compounds may be as good as DEET at repelling mosquitoes

    A bacterium’s metabolic by-products are as effective as DEET in deterring Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.

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  2. Microbes

    A global survey finds that the Arctic Ocean is a hot spot for viruses

    Scientists mapped virus diversity around the world’s oceans. That knowledge may be key to making better climate simulations.

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  3. Readers respond to Lyme disease, fossil teeth and a Tesseract look-alike

    Readers had questions and comments on Lyme disease prevention, speciation, and a mysterious uranium cube.

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  4. Life

    Eating a lot of fiber could improve some cancer treatments

    A high-fiber diet, which boosts the diversity of gut microbes, may make an immune therapy against skin cancer more effective.

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  5. Neuroscience

    No, we don’t know that gum disease causes Alzheimer’s

    A recent study linked gum disease and Alzheimer’s disease, but the results are far from conclusive.

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  6. Life

    Gut bacteria may guard against diabetes that comes with aging

    A friendly microbe in the gut may be the key to staving off insulin resistance, a study in mice finds.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    To tackle the new coronavirus, scientists are accelerating the vaccine process

    Scientists are turning to nontraditional approaches to create vaccines and therapeutics that target the novel coronavirus.

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  8. Plants

    ‘Slime’ shows how algae have shaped our climate, evolution and daily lives

    The new book ‘Slime’ makes the case that algae deserve to be celebrated.

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  9. You can tell a magazine by looking at its cover

    Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses how Science News created its cover about a rare autoimmune disorder.

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  10. Life

    Michelle O’Malley seeks greener chemistry through elusive fungi

    Michelle O’Malley studies anaerobic gut fungi, microbes that could help make chemicals and fuels from sustainable sources.

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  11. Humans

    Personalized diets may be the future of nutrition. But the science isn’t all there yet

    How a person responds to food depends on more than the food itself. But what exactly is still a confusing mix of genes, microbes and other factors.

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  12. Ecosystems

    To save Appalachia’s endangered mussels, scientists hatched a bold plan

    Biologists have just begun to learn whether their bold plan worked to save the golden riffleshell, a freshwater mussel teetering on the brink of extinction.

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