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5,615 results for: Bacteria

  1. Health & Medicine

    Therapies against roundworm, malaria parasites win medicine Nobel

    The 2015 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology was awarded to Youyou Tu for her work in counteracting malaria, and to William Campbell and Satoshi Omura for work on treatments against roundworm parasites.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Life

    Memory cells enhance strategy for fighting blood cancers

    Immune therapy made more powerful with memory T cells.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Health & Medicine

    ‘Dirty’ mice better than lab-raised mice for studying human disease

    Dirtier mice may better mimic human immune reactions.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  4. Health & Medicine

    Microbes make the meal, new diet book proposes

    Researcher Tim Spector skewers conventional thinking about weight loss in ‘The Diet Myth’

    By Meghan Rosen
  5. Animals

    Diagram captures microbes’ influence across animal kingdom

    A network diagram of animal species shows that many microbes living in humans also make themselves at home in dogs, pigs and cattle.

    By Meghan Rosen
  6. Genetics

    A circadian clock transplant gives E. coli rhythm

    Clockworks from algae built into E. coli may hold future jet lag treatment.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  7. Climate

    Phytoplankton rapidly disappearing from the Indian Ocean

    Phytoplankton populations in the Indian Ocean fell 30 percent over the last 16 years largely due to global warming, new research suggests.

    By Thomas Sumner
  8. Health & Medicine

    Genetic tweak turned plague bacterium deadly

    Two genetic changes allowed plague bacteria to cause deadly lung infections and pandemic disease.

    By Sarah Schwartz
  9. Animals

    Don’t judge a whale’s gut microbiome by diet alone

    Evolutionary history and diet may both determine the microbes that live in a baleen whale's stomach, researchers report.

    By Helen Thompson
  10. Animals

    Vulture guts are filled with noxious bacteria

    Vultures’ guts are chock-full of bacteria that sicken other creatures.

    By Kate Baggaley
  11. Genetics

    Scientists consider new genetic power and its impacts

    Thanks to CRISPR, scientists’ plans for effective use of gene drives suddenly look feasible.

    By Eva Emerson
  12. Health & Medicine

    Here are a few more things for the childproofing list

    Some seemingly safe objects may be particularly dangerous for little kids.

    By Laura Sanders