How bacteria survive in a world full of killer bacteriophages

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The Overlapping Plagues Quietly Devastating American Forests

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What evolved first—our brain or gut?

What if the brain evolved to serve the gut? Scientists at Flinders University are challenging a cornerstone of biology, arguing that the gut's nervous system may be the body's original "brain," with the brain evolving later to support its needs.

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Plasmonic coating on bacterial surfaces paves the way for rapid sepsis diagnosis

A research team led by senior researcher Minyoung Lee and principal researcher Sunggyu Park of the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), has developed a label-free surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) analysis technology that rapidly detects extremely low concentrations of viable bacteria by directly growing plasmonic metal nanostructures on and around bacterial cells.