What allows bacteria, both pathogens and mutualists alike, to survive in close association with a eukaryotic host? A new study performed...
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As the global population rises, estimated to hit nearly 10 billion by 2050, so does the need to boost crop yields...
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Could marginal lands be bountiful fields for biofuel crops? To answer that question, scientists are investigating soil microbes...
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It may come as a bit of a surprise to learn that bacteria have an immune system - in their case to fight off invasive viruses called phages...
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Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science and Tel Aviv University have discovered for the first time how the immune system in bacteria manages to recognize...
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The bacterial cell uses its normal DNA replication and repair processes to identify phage DNA, checking and double-checking that the new DNA differs in two fundamental ways from the “self" genome....
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