Where Books Meet Bacteria. Melinda Grosser combines her love of reading and microbiology in her unique Instagram account. Written by Niki Spahich, PhD. Niki Spahich, PhD. With a PhD in Genetics and ...

“We found that certain species of human gut bacteria have a remarkably high capacity to soak up PFAS from their environment ...

Since the genetic code was first deciphered in the 1960s, our genes seemed like an open book. By reading and decoding our chromosomes as linear strings of letters, like sentences in a novel, we ...

Bacteria have adapted to survive in space and may be more infectious. ... Devika Rao has worked as a staff writer at The Week since 2022, covering science, the environment, ...

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An estimated 2.8 million people in the U.S. contract infections each year from bacteria resistant to antibiotics, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. More than 35,000 of them die ...

In the 1940s, the famous Luria–Delbrück experiment showed that bacteria evolve resistance to drugs they'd never encountered thanks to a random mutational process.