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Scientific work often involves sifting through enormous amounts of data, a task that’s overwhelmingly mundane for humans but a piece of cake for artificial intelligence. A new platform dubbed BacterAI ...

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A large study has revealed that dozens of widely used chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria. Many of these substances, ...

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Inflammatory gut bacteria that carry proteins structurally similar to myelin may trigger the development and progression of ...

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany have new research out that reads like the draft of the next science fiction series, suggesting Escherichia coli ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Side-splitting laughter isn’t so typical for a science fair. But when Paul Stapleton, a career biologist and ...

Early experiments suggest a patch that delivers harmless electric currents into the skin can thwart certain bacterial infections. However, it has not yet been tested in humans. When you purchase ...

In the 1940s, the famous Luria–Delbrück experiment showed that bacteria evolve resistance to drugs they'd never encountered thanks to a random mutational process. When you purchase through links on ...

Experiments and modeling reveal the unexpected structure that can be seen in bacteria grown in mucus samples and biofilms. Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial ...

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