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Vegetables as well as meat could spread superbugs into food chain
Antibiotic-resistant microbes may be able to enter the human food chain via plants and vegetables as well as via meat, according to research in mice
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Microbes from farms may protect children from asthma even in cities
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Everything you need to know about the hospital food listeria outbreak
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Alzheimer’s disease
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Bacteria could identify month-old suspicious stains at crime scenes
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Working hypothesis: From space deliveries to dirty money
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Eczema-associated bacteria may be kept in check by a different microbe
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A virus we thought was harmless to humans may worsen cystic fibrosis
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We contain microbes so deeply weird they alter the very tree of life
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Salmonella can hijack immune cells to spread around the body
Salmonella bacteria can use immune cells as vehicles to escape from the gut. They control them by changing the way the cells react to electrical signals
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Giant viruses have weaponised CRISPR against their bacterial hosts
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Spread of cancers halted by smart bacteria that trigger immune attack
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Toilet on International Space Station gets a bacteria-killing upgrade
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I’m travelling the world to collect poo for the good of humankind
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