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“It is the only technology that can generate electricity directly from the breakdown of waste that we throw in the bin”

Biotechnologist Ioannis Ieropoulos on microbial fuel cells, waste treatment, and the ‘Pee-Power’ urinal

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Adaptability of Life to Extreme Environments

Astrobiologist Christopher Carr on archaea and bacteria, possibly habitable planets, and life on Mars

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Bacteria shift shape to invade human microbiome

Two bacterial pathogens changed their very own cell shape as they adapted to the nasopharynx microbiome

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The existence of the tiniest bacteria confirmed

Biologists have imaged ultra-small bacteria that are close to the lowest size limit possible for life on Earth

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Environmental Metagenomics

MIT Research Scientist Christopher Carr on terrestrial Mars analogues, the importance of computer science in astrobiology, and the connection with acid rock drainage

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Biophysics of Antimicrobal Peptides

University of Strasbourg professor, Burkhard Bechinger, on discovering new antibiotics, the interaction of peptides with bacterial membranes and promising work all over the world

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Uncultured Bacteria

Microbiologist Kim Lewis on the great plate count anomaly, siderophores, and the human microbiome

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Engineering More Effective Antibiotics

Boston University Prof. James Collins on bacterial resistance, active mutagens, and efficacy of biocides