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Continental break-up set the stage for life in Earth's mantle

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Continental break-up set the stage for life in Earth's mantle

The first evidence that ancient microbes colonised subsea mantle rock hints at how life might have emerged on Earth – and even other worlds

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Watch vomiting machine simulate how stomach bugs spread

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Watch vomiting machine simulate how stomach bugs spread

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Resistant bacteria don't just evade drugs – they are fitter too

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Resistant bacteria don't just evade drugs – they are fitter too

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Laser 'tricorder' can diagnose malaria through the skin

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Laser 'tricorder' can diagnose malaria through the skin

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One gene may drive leap from single cell to multicellular life

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One gene may drive leap from single cell to multicellular life

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First circadian clock transplant allows <i>E. coli</i> to keep time

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First circadian clock transplant allows E. coli to keep time

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Doctors call for faecal transplant regulation as concerns mount

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Doctors call for faecal transplant regulation as concerns mount

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Smart probiotics: Wiring friendly bacteria to take out disease

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Smart probiotics: Wiring friendly bacteria to take out disease

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Unregulated faecal transplants could squander gut-bug promise

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Unregulated faecal transplants could squander gut-bug promise

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Ocean's microbiome has incredible diversity – and human likeness

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Ocean's microbiome has incredible diversity – and human likeness

Genes mapped from thousands of newly discovered plankton species show striking similarities between human and ocean microbiomes

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These sparkly sea organisms are an eerie omen of climate change

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Leeuwenhoek's 'animalcules', just as he saw them 340 years ago

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Brain-eating amoebas kill by turning your body against you

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Rock-forming microbes may be suited for life on other planets

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