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There's something make-believe, almost Pokémon-like in a new species of bacteria found living on a mud flat in Oregon.

Marine bacteria control how much CO2 is stored in the oceans, by swimming after and degrading sinking particles that would otherwise remain stored in the ocean for millennia. Researchers have ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans ... They put the cells under four radically different kinds of imaging devices — not only a transmission ...

A listeria outbreak has sickened at least 10 people in the United States, and a producer is voluntarily recalling dozens of food products sold to retail stores, hospitals, hotels, airports and ...

Yersinia pestis continued infecting people in three separate pandemics over more than a thousand years. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning electron microscope (SEM). In his colourized electron micrographs, faecal bacteria resemble thin ...

Mixing them produces a live culture where yeast and bacteria ferment ... s sourdough starter with the microscope I use in my day-to-day research. Scanning electron microscopy, or SEM, is a ...

The fascinating world of bacteria that live as symbionts or parasites ... into the interactions between microbes and their host. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr Manuel Liebeke, head of the ...

Researchers found bacterial cells so large they are easily visible to the naked eye, challenging ideas about how large microbes can get. By Carl Zimmer In a Caribbean mangrove forest, scientists ...

For example, an environmental-scanning electron microscope that maintains a low vacuum in the sample chamber to view specimen with moisture is currently under development. Yolanda graduated with a ...