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Researchers at EPFL have built a matchbox-sized device that can test the presence of bacteria in a couple of minutes, instead of up to several weeks.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 21:25
A new study has found that planktonic bacteria inhabiting the world`s oceans have streamlined their genetic makeup to become lean, mean survival machines.
Last Updated: Thursday, May 23, 2013, 21:54
Your loyal pooch may be bringing a whole world of bacteria into your home including certain bugs that are rarely seen in households without dogs, a new study has found.
Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013, 15:29
Researchers including one of Indian origin have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole source of carbon.
Last Updated: Saturday, May 4, 2013, 18:11
Superoxide-producing bacteria form away from sunlight and live in dark places like lake, ocean depths and underground soils, it has been revealed.
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 14:29
A team from the University of Exeter, with support from Shell, has developed a method to make bacteria produce diesel on demand.
Last Updated: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 20:59
Scientists, for the first time, have genetically engineered E. coli bacteria which are addicted to caffeine.
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 18:51
A team of scientists from the UK and the US have identified the power-generating mechanism used by well-known marine bacteria.
Last Updated: Monday, March 18, 2013, 11:42
An international research team has discovered that a highly active bacteria community exists in one of the most inaccessible places on Earth: the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Last Updated: Friday, March 15, 2013, 17:47
Scientists digging a new railway in London have uncovered 13 skeletons that will be tested to see if they died from the Black Death plague in the 14th century.
Last Updated: Saturday, February 23, 2013, 15:45
Scientists studying the world`s oldest sedimentary rocks have claimed that about 3.8 billion years ago, an early form of photosynthesis may have evolved.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 18:13
A team of microbiologists from the US and Russia have discovered bacterial microbes living in an incredibly hostile environment in Siberia, which is similar to that found on Mars.
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