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Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus, form long cables that buckle and twist on each other ...

Scientists have translated nanoscale experimental and computational data into precise 3D representations of bacteria, yeast ...

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At universities and startups around the globe, researchers are searching for microbes that could be used as food.

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