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Hans Christian Gram: The biologist who helped investigate bacteria

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Hans Christian Gram: The biologist who helped investigate bacteria

Biologist Hans Christian Gram devised one of the most important staining techniques used in microbiology to identify bacteria under a microscope

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Some microbes manage to live in the inhospitable Atacama desert

Earth

Bacteria fly into the Atacama Desert every afternoon on the wind

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Ibuprofen has been linked to changes in bacteria in a lab experiment

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Ibuprofen and other common drugs may help antibiotic resistance spread

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The team have imaged Prometheoarchaeum syntrophicum using electron microscopes

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Deep-sea microbe could answer one of evolution's biggest mysteries

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Huntington beach

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Swimming in the sea completely changes the microbes on your skin

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gut microbes

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A severe autoimmune condition may be triggered by 'good' gut bacteria

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koala in hospital

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Koalas burned in wildfires can now be saved but the treatment is gross

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Inside the audacious mission to map every microbe in Australia

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Inside the audacious mission to map every microbe in Australia

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Allergies are more common in young children

Health

Gut microbes may determine whether infants develop food allergies

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Zombieland: The vast world of hidden microbes miles beneath your feet

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Zombieland: The vast world of hidden microbes miles beneath your feet

No matter how deep we dig, life has always found a way to survive. The remarkable story of these impossible microbes can teach us about how life evolved

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Life

We contain microbes so deeply weird they alter the very tree of life

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Space

NASA says the International Space Station is covered in bacteria

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Space

Curiosity is entering what may be the best area to find life on Mars

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Life

Giant viruses have weaponised CRISPR against their bacterial hosts

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