Life
Continental break-up set the stage for life in Earth’s mantle
The first evidence that ancient microbes colonised subsea mantle rock hints at how life might have emerged on Earth 鈥� and even other worlds
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Life
Synthetic biology needs a grand design vision
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Health
Plague may not be solely to blame for Black Death’s mortality
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Resistant bacteria don’t just evade drugs 鈥� they are fitter too
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Smart probiotics: Wiring friendly bacteria to take out disease
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Life
Mystery disease claims half world population of saiga antelopes
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Life
Leeuwenhoek’s ‘animalcules’, just as he saw them 340 years ago
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Earth
Antarctica’s Blood Falls are a sign of life below ground
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Health
Is super-diverse Amazon microbiome something to strive for?
The Yanomami people in the Venezuelan rainforest have the most diverse population of gut microbes ever seen, far more varied than Western guts. Does it matter?
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Earth
Plague hits prairie dogs and changes US ecosystems
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Life
Bacteria power up by using magnets as batteries
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Health
NHS game-changers: The antibiotic apocalypse
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Environment
Modified E. coli spin fibres as tough as spider silk
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