Health
Was humanity born in the mother of all plagues?
Early in human evolution, our ancestors switched off two key genes. Doing so may have allowed us to fight off an epidemic of bacterial disease
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Life
Bottled carbon from Mars bodes well for ancient aliens
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Life
Buried microbes exist at limit between life and death
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Life
Zoologger: Bug evolved a self-propelling corkscrew
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Life
Magnetic bacteria create a biological hard drive
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Life
Move over DNA: Six new molecules can carry genes
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Health
Babies are born dirty, with a gutful of bacteria
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Life
Immune retune: Befriend your bacteria
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Earth
Too-blue oceans: The invisible famine
Features
Earth
Modified bacteria could get electricity from sewage
Using genetically engineered bacteria to capture energy stored in waste water could make treatment cheap and energy-efficient
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Health
Sleeper cells: How to fight bacteria that play dead
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Health
Antibiotics are wonder drugs no more
Opinion
Health
Bacteria could be significant cause of OCD
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Health
Pressure to tighten up antibiotics on US farms
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