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A research team led by Occidental College has identified a previously unknown symbiosis; deep sea spiders that cultivate and ...

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A team of scientists from the Hopkirk Research Institute, the New Zealand Food Safety Science and Research Centre, and Applied Technologies Group, hoping to solve a challenge plaguing the meat ...

Cornell researchers have identified an antibiotic, rifampin, that is 99.9% effective against Salmonella Typhi, the bacterium ...

A recent study led by the University of Turku, Finland, analyzed the DNA map of more than 14,000 gut metagenomes in a global ...