Other interesting stories:

• Bacterial nanowires are pretty awesome at moving electrons
• get-by-on-almost-no-oxygen.html">Yeast cells, probably like early ancestors, can get by on very little oxygen
• Scientists imitate viral method of transferring genes to cells
• Algae biofuels work pretty well but not awesome
• Bacteria-eating bacteria seem to behave differently in different kinds of light
• Bacteria could clean up mercury contamination in environment
• scientist.com/2011/08/16/bacteria-kamikazes/">Bacteria engineered to seek and destroy pathogens

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