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Artist and college professor Steve Kurtz awoke one morning in May 2004 to find his wife, Hope Kurtz, dead of heart failure. He immediately called 911. Upon arrival, the paramedics noticed bacteria ...
The scanning electron microscope image shows a colony of bacteria (coloured bluish) around a few micrometres small root (brown) in the soil. The image represents how bacteria and microbial ...
Tests for E. coli at 4 Summit County beaches detected higher levels than the maximum recommended by the Ohio Department of ...
A new report reveals contaminated beach conditions in Washington, raising health concerns for summer visitors.
This important study introduces a Bayesian method to determine bacterial counts that accounts for the experimental noise inherent to dilution and plating methods, and distinguishes it from biological ...
Shipman’s team has found ways to program retrons so they make copies of a desired DNA sequence. When phages infect a bacterial colony containing retrons, the phages integrate the retron-produced ...
A river beach near the Jersey Shore in Ocean County has been placed under a water quality advisory Tuesday due to elevated ...
The ability to actively migrate is a fundamental property of living matter such as cells. Scientists at the MPI-DS have investigated how this motion interacts with the growth of the entire colony ...