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A gum disease bacterium may contribute to aortic valve calcification through inflammation, according to preliminary human ...

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Sweeteners gut bacteria research from Cambridge shows low-calorie sweeteners directly suppress beneficial gut microbes — with ...

A study shows that Mars might provide a supportive environment for microbes that will reach the Red Planet with the ...

Three undergraduate researchers published with a team in Nature, shedding new light on a microbe and its host.

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RNA can fold into more complex configurations than scientists thought, raising questions about how important these 3D structures were when life on Earth began.

For billions of years, evolution was driven by random mutations. A new breakthrough puts control over DNA, life’s blueprint, ...

Kate Markey, MBBS, PhD, FRACP , an assistant professor at Fred Hutch Cancer Center and UW Medicine, has recently been named ...