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Tatsuya Nobori brings high-resolution multiomic approaches to plant biology to map how plants interact with microbes on a ...

Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of ...

Patients with implanted medical devices like orthopedic joint replacements, pacemakers, and artificial heart valves run a ...

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While gut bacteria play an essential (if not always socially tactful) role in human nutrition, a wealth of recent research ...

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The ...

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