Device uses leaf technology to turn sunlight into power – The Boston Globe
“The thumb-size black strip looks like a thin magnet. But in reality, it is an artificial leaf, made of silicon and capable of using sunlight to split wat...
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Superbugs Predate Wonder Drugs – ScienceNOW
“It’s a “carefully done study,” adds George Church, a geneticist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. “Non-s...
Mind-Altering Bugs – ScienceNOW
“Hundreds of species of bacteria call the human gut their home. This gut “microbiome” influences our physiology and health in ways that scient...
PLoS Genetics: A Broad Brush, Global Overview of Bacterial Sexuality
“These results have several implications. Firstly, plasmids and ICEs share the same protein families, and should be considered as alternative vehicles for...
Living to 100 and Beyond – WSJ.com
“In Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels,” Gulliver encounters a small group of immortals, the struldbrugs. “Those excellent...
Suicide-Bombing Bacteria Could Fight Infections – ScienceNOW
“The researchers tweaked the genes that allow P. aeruginosa to detect other members of its species and put this synthetic genetic code into E. coli’...
PLoS Biology: Endosymbiosis: Lessons in Conflict Resolution
“In sum, the past few years have witnessed a surge of new empirical and theoretical approaches to understand the dynamics of bacterial–insect relationship...
Three Snug Bugs – ScienceNOW
“Mealybugs are the Russian nesting dolls of the animal world. Their bodies harbor a bacterium that helps them turn plant sap into usable nutrients, and th...
Complexification, complexity inflection points, and Russian nested dolls
Proteome-wide post-translational modification statistics: frequency analysis and curation of the swiss-prot database : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Gr...
A Bug in a Bug in a Bug – ScienceNOW
“But when Von Dohlen and her student Shawn Kohler examined the mealybugs’ so-called “symbiotic spheres,” long assumed to be host structu...