In this show, I report on four exciting stories: using slime molds to design networks, bacteria working together to reduce environmental damage, a stomach germ that helps prevent tuberculosis, and bacterial colonies that flash in synchrony.
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Other interesting stories:
- Bacteria detoxify selenium in soil
- Scientists find heat-loving organisms in Arctic waters and trace them to their probable origins
- plans-to-cut-costs.5989321.jp">Distillery plans to use bacteria to digest yeasty waste, using the resulting methane to produce electricity (or power local cars), ultimately reducing costs
- Scientists find that eating lots of apples may lead to more good bacteria in the gut
- Researchers discover that some kinds of bacteria have membrane-bound internal structures, which were once thought to only exist in eukaryotes (like animals and plants)
- Development of a potential probiotic treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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