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New candidate for raw material synthesis through gene transfer
Added: 13 Jul 2020
Cyanobacteria hardly need any nutrients and use the energy of sunlight. Bathers are familiar with t…
Honey, I shrunk the cell culture
Added: 24 Jun 2020
From ‘Fantastic Voyage’ to ‘Despicable Me’, shrink rays have been a science-fiction staple on scree…
Return to work safely: Environmental surface swabbing
Added: 18 May 2020
In light of the UK government’s request for employers to enable staff to safely return to work wher…
Confirmed: SARS-CoV-2 has not mutated
Added: 6 May 2020
Analysis work from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research provides evidence that S…
Activation of the SARS coronavirus 2 revealed
Added: 6 May 2020
The Infection Biology Unit of the German Primate Center (DPZ) - Leibniz Institute for Primate Resea…
Open-Source AI-derived drug discovery data to help combat COVID-19
Added: 28 Apr 2020
Recursion, a digital biology company industrialising drug discovery, released its open-source RxRx1…
Ancient yeast leavens bread
Added: 7 Aug 2019
A 4,500-year-old strain of yeast sampled from ancient Egyptian pottery has been used to bake bread.
Porous rocks support prebiotic evolution theory
Added: 7 Aug 2019
The water-air interface found at pores in volcanic rocks could have been the location of the chemic…
UK food safety company partners cannabis producer
Added: 5 Aug 2019
Scottish food safety company R-Biopharm Rhône will supply its test kits to an unnamed Canadian cann…
Agar Scientific buys London Resin Company
Added: 2 Aug 2019
Laboratory equipment supplier Agar Scientific has acquired London Resin Company for an undisclosed …
Algal biofuels face diverse pathogens
Added: 24 Jul 2019
DNA analysis of a predatory bacterium has revealed a much higher level of genetic diversity than pr…
Electrical pulses identify live bacteria
Added: 19 Jun 2019
A new bioelectrical device that can differentiate dead or alive bacteria within minutes could offer…
Plague bacterium located in Britain
Added: 6 Jun 2019
The first genetic evidence of the Justinian Plague in the British Isles suggests multiple strains o…
Climate change boosts banana disease
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Antimicrobial microrobots remove biofilms
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Magnetic microrobots could offer an alternative to antibacterial drugs as a way of destroying biofi…
Oil-degrading bacterium
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 15 Apr 2019
Hydrocarbon-eating bacteria found in the deepest part of the Earth’s oceans could help clean up mad…
Chlorophyll-producing organism is non-photosynthetic
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Biologists have identified the first organism that can produce chlorophyll but does not engage in p…
NASA details ISS microbes
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 8 Apr 2019
A comprehensive study of bacteria and fungi found on surfaces on the International Space Station co…
Mutation found in drug-resistant fungus
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A newly identified genetic mutation in a drug resistant fungus may help in the fight against antimi…
Silver lining kills superbugs
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 25 Mar 2019
An silver coating has been found to reduce antimicrobial resistance aboard the International Space …
