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Researchers engineer bacteria to produce hydrogen fuel from sunlight, potentially revolutionizing green hydrogen production.

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In biology textbooks, the endoplasmic reticulum is often portrayed as a distinct, compact organelle near the nucleus, and is ...

Scientists at UMass Amherst and Ernest Pharmaceuticals developed BacID, a bacterial cancer therapy activated by aspirin. This ...

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Antibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis responsible for more than a million deaths annually. By 2050, the ...

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Methanol is metabolized into the natural gas methane by many microbes living under Earth’s surface, but its source has been unclear. It emerges that some bacteria convert formate molecules into ...