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Walking with bacteria

They swim, they swarm, they twitch and glide…they even ride on comet tails, and now it seems that bacteria can ‘walk’ as Maxsim Gibiansky and colleagues demonstrate in their short but sweet research published in Science. Gibiansky et al. studied … Continue reading

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Mapping our microbes

Researchers have successfully mapped the different microbial communities over the whole body according to research by Costello and colleagues published in Science this week. The human body is home to trillions of bacteria, so many that in fact bacteria outnumber … Continue reading

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