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Scientists say that bacteria "scream" as they die, giving off chemical alarms that warn their brethren of danger like antibiotics.

Scientists: Unfortunately, Bacteria Scream When They Die

By Jon Christian

Newly-discovered bacteria can help neutralize dangerous toxins, potentially leading to a new way to clean Superfund sites.

Scientists Find Bacteria That Devours Cancer-Causing Pollutants

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists saw bacteria subjected to different conditions rapidly develop different evolutionary strategies, helping explain why some become dangerous.

Scientists Just Watched Bacteria Evolve in Real Time

By Dan Robitzski

Swallow a Small Device and It’ll Scrape Your Gut Bacteria for Signs of Trouble

Swallow a Small Device and It’ll Scrape Your Gut Bacteria for Signs of Trouble

By Dan Robitzski

Before we can launch any long-term space travel, scientists will need to find away to protect against bacteria, which becomes deadlier in microgravity.

Oh Great: Space Travel Makes Bacteria Even Deadlier

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered the first bacteria that chemosynthesizes the metal manganese, and they did it almost by accident while cleaning up an experiment.

Newly-Discovered Bacteria Can Eat Metal as Food

By Dan Robitzski

Nasty Images Show How Bacteria Colonize Your Tongue

Nasty Images Show How Bacteria Colonize Your Tongue

By Victor Tangermann

Materials researcher Will Srubar argues that in order to build a sustainable future, scientists need to develop living, self-growing materials.

This Professor Wants to Grow Entire Buildings Out of Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

A doctoral candidate has a unique idea for how to colonize Mars: send bacteria to digest the soil and churn out useable raw materials for future settlers.

Unusual PhD Thesis: Let’s Use Bacteria to Colonize Mars

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA is funding research into bacteria for bomb detection that could sense explosives below the ground and then glow on its surface.

DARPA Is Engineering Glowing Bacteria for Bomb Detection

By Kristin Houser

An experiment called BioRock is figuring out whether bacteria could turn space rocks into farmable soil for future off-world settlements.

Astronomers Want to Use Bacteria to Mine Space Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

By embedding engineered bacteria into the fingers of a robot arm, researchers have created a biohybrid bot that can "taste" for certain chemicals.

Robot Arm Uses Bacteria in Its Fingers to “Taste” Its Environment

By Kristin Houser

In order to kill antibiotic-resistant superbugs, scientists are gene-hacking viruses to target the bacteria and kill them from the inside.

Scientists Gene-Hack Viruses to Hunt and Kill Super-Strong Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

Plastic pollutants in the ocean can stunt the growth of a certain bacteria responsible for pumping the atmosphere full of oxygen, according to a new study.

Plastic Is Killing the Bacteria That Make 10% of Earth’s Oxygen

By Dan Robitzski

Cornell scientists discovered a bacterial gene that makes them resistant to last-resort antibiotics. They hope it will help doctors screen for superbugs.

Sneaky Bacteria Can Swap Genes, Making Them Immune to Antibiotics

By Dan Robitzski

A new genetic trick allowed researchers to use bacteria to manufacture super-strong spider silk faster than spiders do themselves.

Scientists Gene-Hacked Bacteria to Make Bullet-Proof Spider Silk

By Dan Robitzski

A German pharma company patented a process in which genetically modified tequila bacterium produce a range of cannabinoids by just feeding on sugar.

Scientists Gene-Edited Tequila Bacteria to Make Cannabinoids

By Victor Tangermann

Electricity producing bacteria may one day play a big roll in producing the Earths energy

New Technique Makes Electricity-Producing Bacteria More Useful Than Ever

Researchers discover that Oregon blue clay has antibacterial properties that even treatment-resistant bacterias can't withstand.

An Ancient Antibacterial Technique Might Hold the Key to Future Wound Treatment

By Kristin Houser

Biologists Engineered An Assassin Virus to Kill Bacteria on Command

Biologists Engineered An Assassin Virus to Kill Bacteria on Command

By Kristin Houser

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found on International Space Station

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found on International Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

Spanish scientists just let some photosynthetic bacteria go to town on stool samples. They turned it into biofuel and filtered out any greenhouse gases.

A Purple, Photosynthetic Bacteria Can Turn Your Poop Into Power

By Dan Robitzski

A Toronto startup figured out how to get bacteria to turn food waste into biodegradable plastics. If it scales, it could prevent loads of methane emissions.

These Bacteria Digest Food Waste Into Biodegradable Plastic

By Dan Robitzski

A New Test Can Screen for Every Bacteria That Causes Disease In Humans

By Kristin Houser

CDC officials have traced an outbreak of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria Campylobacter jejuni to pet-store puppies unnecessarily prescribed antibiotics.

Pet Store Puppies Are Spreading Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

By Kristin Houser

Want to Breathe on Mars? A Sea-Dwelling Bacteria Could Make That Possible.

Want to Breathe on Mars? A Sea-Dwelling Bacteria Could Make That Possible.

By Kristin Houser

Wandering Gut Bacteria Could Be Behind Conditions Like Lupus

Wandering Gut Bacteria Could Be Behind Conditions Like Lupus

Hacking a Cow’s Gut Bacteria Could Make More Meat, Less Pollution

Hacking a Cow’s Gut Bacteria Could Make More Meat, Less Pollution

By Chelsea Gohd

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A Bacteria Is Making Sunscreen Safe for You and the Environment

Human Bacteria: An Unlikely Shield Against Skin Cancer

Human Bacteria: An Unlikely Shield Against Skin Cancer

By Lou Del Bello

Fecal Transplants See Success in 90 Percent of Bacterial Gut Infections

Fecal Transplants See Success in 90 Percent of Bacterial Gut Infections

By Patrick Caughill

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Bacteria Hidden Under Our Feet May Be a New Weapon Against Superbugs

By Kristin Houser

Scientists Have Expanded the Genetic Code in Bacteria

Scientists Have Expanded the Genetic Code in Bacteria

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Scientists Use CRISPR to Turn E.Coli Bacteria into a Microscopic Tape Recorder

New Research Shows Asymmetry in Bacteria Might Help Us Fight Antibiotic Resistance

New Research Shows Asymmetry in Bacteria Might Help Us Fight Antibiotic Resistance

Scientists Just Successfully Programmed Bacteria Using Synthetic Genes

Scientists Just Successfully Programmed Bacteria Using Synthetic Genes

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A New Drug Uses CRISPR to Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Shape Shifting Space Bacteria Could Help Us Treat Earthly Antibiotic Resistance

Shape Shifting Space Bacteria Could Help Us Treat Earthly Antibiotic Resistance

Drug-Delivering Micromotors Treat Their First Bacterial Infection in the Stomach

Drug-Delivering Micromotors Treat Their First Bacterial Infection in the Stomach

Researchers Find a Type of Animal Feed May Contribute to Development of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Researchers Find a Type of Animal Feed May Contribute to Development of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

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New Study Shows How Your Gut Bacteria Could Influence Anxiety

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Cyborg Bacteria Could Be the Key to Commercially Viable Artificial Photosynthesis

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A Common Gut Bacteria Could Prevent a Top Killer of Newborns Worldwide

Scientists Just Encoded a GIF into the DNA of Bacteria Using CRISPR

Scientists Just Encoded a GIF into the DNA of Bacteria Using CRISPR

Scientists Modify Viruses with CRISPR to Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Scientists Modify Viruses with CRISPR to Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Scientists Call for More Research into Link Between Autism and Gut Bacteria

Scientists Call for More Research into Link Between Autism and Gut Bacteria

By Chelsea Gohd

New Study Finds Gut Bacteria May Inhibit Cancer Drugs

New Study Finds Gut Bacteria May Inhibit Cancer Drugs

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New Research Shows Microgravity Mutates Bacteria Into Superbugs

A New “CRISPR Pill” Makes Bacteria Destroy Its Own DNA

A New “CRISPR Pill” Makes Bacteria Destroy Its Own DNA

A New Study Has Revealed a Link Between Gut Bacteria and Parkinson’s Disease

A New Study Has Revealed a Link Between Gut Bacteria and Parkinson’s Disease

By Patrick Caughill

Genetically Enhanced Bacteria Could Transform Wastewater Into Electricity

Genetically Enhanced Bacteria Could Transform Wastewater Into Electricity

By Charmaine Caparas

Doctors Treat a Fatal Condition Using Magnets to “Pull” Bacteria From Blood

Doctors Treat a Fatal Condition Using Magnets to “Pull” Bacteria From Blood

By Kristin Houser

Bacteria Can Use Electricity to Communicate Across Species

Bacteria Can Use Electricity to Communicate Across Species

By Patrick Caughill

The New Cas9? Scientists Discover CasX and CasY Enzymes in Bacteria

The New Cas9? Scientists Discover CasX and CasY Enzymes in Bacteria

By Robert Sanders

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Scientists Have Officially Entered the Weird World of Bacteria-Powered Batteries

By June Javelosa

A Cure for Diabetes? Staph Bacteria Identified as Potential Cause

A Cure for Diabetes? Staph Bacteria Identified as Potential Cause

Genetically Engineered Bacteria Let Scientists ‘See’ Into Soil

Genetically Engineered Bacteria Let Scientists ‘See’ Into Soil

By Charmaine Caparas

Genetically Engineered Bacteria Can Fight Liver Tumors

Genetically Engineered Bacteria Can Fight Liver Tumors

By Charmaine Caparas

New Genetically Engineered Bacteria Could Help Combat Global Warming

New Genetically Engineered Bacteria Could Help Combat Global Warming

A Scientist Injected Himself with 3.5 Million-Year-Old Bacteria Hoping to “Extend Life”

“Dormant” Bacteria in Blood Was Just Linked to Several Diseases

“Dormant” Bacteria in Blood Was Just Linked to Several Diseases

MIT Biologically Engineers a New Weapon to Kill Bacteria

MIT Biologically Engineers a New Weapon to Kill Bacteria

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Modified Bacteria Could Cure a Fatal Genetic Disorder Found in Infants

By Jess Vilvestre

A New Way to Cure? Bacteria With Genetic Programs Are Coming To a Body Near You

A New Way to Cure? Bacteria With Genetic Programs Are Coming To a Body Near You

By Eleazer Corpuz