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Xiaoqi Feng holding a male liverwort in her lab at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). The group of Xiaoqi Feng at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) uses this ...

Understanding the inheritance of bacterial metabolic activity is of high practical significance to microbial engineering and offers fundamental insights into chemical and synthetic biology. In ...

An insect ecology professor at the University of Kentucky explored her research on how bacteria affects spider reproduction during a March 20 lecture. The researcher, Jen White, presented her findings ...

In a groundbreaking study, researcher Kostas Konstantinidis has reshaped our understanding of microbial life, challenging the long-standing belief that bacteria do not form distinct species. For years ...

Salinibacter ruber cells (green) under the microscope. Other colors represent different organisms in the saltern. Credit: Tomeu Viver. For a long time, scientists thought bacteria didn’t form species ...