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The discovery could pave the way to starving antibioitc-resistant bacteria without new drugs or harmful chemicals.

A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert.

Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a scientist who thinks NASA's Viking landers could have inadvertently destroyed the life they were ...

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New ML model shows importance of microbial load, as opposed to the more often used microbial composition, as a metric in ...

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Current methods to deliver bacteria to the bladder are invasive and require repeated catheter insertion. Even when bacteria ...

Bacteria-eating viruses called bacteriophages are drawing new interest, Lina Zeldovich writes in "The Living Medicine." ...