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A Bacteria-Virus Could Lead to a New Way to Treat Shigellosis
When some bacteria manage to escape being killed by a virus, the microbes end up hamstringing themselves. And that could be useful in the...
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Zander Peterson
Mar 13, 2022
Drug-Resistant Bacteria Evolved on Hedgehogs Long Before the Use of Antibiotics
Beneath the prickly spines of European hedgehogs, a microbial standoff may have bred a dangerous drug-resistant pathogen long before the...
Amanda Springer
Mar 11, 2022
Penicillin Allergies May be Linked to One Immune System Gene
Penicillin, effective against many bacterial infections, is often a first-line antibiotic. Yet it is also one of the most common causes...
Carlisle Beck
Mar 9, 2022
How Massive Stars in Binary Systems Turn into Carbon Factories
The next time you thank your lucky stars, you might want to bless the binaries. New calculations indicate that a massive star whose outer...
Zander Peterson
Mar 7, 2022
Bird's Internal Compass is Derived From Newly Discovered Protein
Birds can sense Earth’s magnetic field, and this uncanny ability may help them fly home from unfamiliar places or navigate migrations...
Grace Barron
Mar 5, 2022
Resurrected Gene May Protect Elephants from Cancer
Elephants rarely succumb to cancer. That’s surprising given how large the animals grow and how long they can live, which should provide...
Carolina McDonald
Mar 3, 2022
E. Coli Can Mutate Nearby Bacteria
Some bacteria can trigger unexploded viral grenades in neighboring bacteria’s DNA. Certain Escherichia coli bacteria, including some that...
Sarah Graham
Mar 1, 2022
Tardigrades May See Only in Black & White
Tardigrades’ close arthropod relatives can see color and ultraviolet light. But tardigrades don’t have the same light-sensing proteins,...
Harrison Welch
Feb 27, 2022
Fecal Transplant Pils Help with Peanut Allergy
In people, fecal transplants — which take feces from healthy people and transplant it into ill individuals, usually by colonoscopy — have...
Connor Rafter
Feb 25, 2022
Studying Fertility Using Blastoids Made of Stem Cells
Newly created “blastoids” could give scientists a faster and simpler way to research embryonic development than using fertilized human...
Grace Barron
Feb 24, 2022
How Gut Microbiota Help Squirrels With Hibernation
Gut microbes give some squirrels a helping hand to stay strong during hibernation. The microorganisms appear to help the squirrels...
Carlisle Beck
Feb 21, 2022
Engineered Gut Bacteria In Honeybees Trick Attackers to Self-Destruct.
Deadly, fat-sucking mites and wing-wrecking viruses, take note. Specially engineered gut microbes can defend honeybees by tricking their...
Sarah Graham
Feb 19, 2022
New Study Shows Blind People Can See Letters Traced On their Brains
Scientists have developed a new way to create “sights” for blind people. It’s like skywriting, but instead of blue sky, the letters are...
Connor Rafter
Feb 17, 2022
How Geckos Adapt to Heat Waves
A handful of small, nocturnal geckos have spilled their guts for science, revealing how the creatures get by in a part of Earth’s hottest...
James Lim
Feb 15, 2022
How African Killifish Pause Aging
When the ponds where one African fish lives dry up, its offspring put their lives on pause. And now researchers have a sense for how the...
Zander Peterson
Feb 12, 2022
Sleep: The Catalyst for Creativity
The twilight time between fully awake and sound asleep may be packed with creative potential. People who recently drifted off into a...
Henry Paisley
Feb 9, 2022
Using Electrical Brain Stimulation to Treat OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is marked by repetitive, anxiety-inducing thoughts, urges and compulsions, such as excessive...
Summer Davidson
Feb 7, 2022
CRISPR Gene-Editing in Tomatoes Helps Lower Blood Pressure
Genome-edited food made with CRISPR–Cas9 technology is being sold on the open market for the first time. Since September, the Sicilian...
Dillon Levine
Feb 5, 2022
Recycled Lithium Batteries v. New Batteries
Lithium-ion batteries are at the heart of nearly every electric vehicle, laptop, and smartphone, and they are essential to storing...
Devon Tonneson
Feb 3, 2022
The Art Of Lying: How Lies Impact the Brain
In 1993, a 51-year-old man, when he tried to tell a lie, often passed out and had convulsions. In essence, he became a kind of Pinocchio....
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