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Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such ...

Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Laboratory, have published a study in ...

Experiments and modeling reveal the unexpected structure that can be seen in bacteria grown in mucus samples and biofilms.

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Each year, most species of bacteria in a Wisconsin lake rapidly evolved, apparently in response to dramatically changing seasons, and then evolved back.

The genome assemblage was performed using Unicycler v.0.5.0 (Wick et al., 2017 ... glycosyl hydrolases in the genomes of soda lake cellulotrophic bacteria and their saccharolytic satellites. This ...