LiveScience Topics: Bacteria

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  Pneumonic Plague: Should We Worry?

  An outbreak of pneumonic plague in China has killed three

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  Bacteria for Brains

  Some math problems can only be solved by throwing exponentially more computer processors at them. Bacteria could be the answer.

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  Caught on Video: Immune Cell Destroys Bacteria

  In a first, scientists capture in video immune cells consuming bacteria in a living organism.

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  In Vivo Video: Immune Cells Munch on Bad Bacteria

  For the first time, medical researchers make movies inside a living animal of attack by immune cells on bacteria. Hemocytes (green) rapidly engulf E.coli (red) in this time-lapse microscope movie.

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  Oldest Animal Fossils Found in Lakes, Not Oceans

  Fossils discovered in a lake may force scientists to rethink where life began.

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  Coffee Extract Fights Bad Breath

  An extract from coffee can inhibit the bacteria that lead to bad breath.

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  Is Nothing Safe Anymore?

  Raw cookie dough is like any other raw food: it may contain bacteria. Duh!

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  Renewed Call to Get Antibiotics Out of Food

  The dangers of antibiotic abuse in industrial-scale animal meat production are well known.

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  Microbe Wakes Up After 120,000 Years

  Scientists resurrect a tiny bacterium from beneath a Greenland glacier.

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  Salmonella Has a Sweet Tooth

  Salmonella bacteria require glucose to survive during infection, according to new research

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  Rich Streams of Bacterial Life Found on Skin

  Skin bacteria varies based on conditions such as dry, moist and oily.

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  Pea-Sized Seahorse Makes 'Top 10 Species' List

  A pea-sized seahorse and bacteria that live in hairspray are among the top 10 species described in 2008, a group says.

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  New Breath Test Tells If You're Kissable

  A pocket-size breath test can catch a whiff of bad-breath bacteria.

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  Scientists to Resurrect Ancient Gene to Replay Evolution

  Aim is to resurrect a single gene from an extinct species of bacteria.

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  Surviving Salmonella: What You Can Do

  Lettuce, chicken, tomatoes, peanut butter and now pistachios. Pistachios?

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  Amoebas Act as Trojan Horses for Salmonella

  Salmonella are microscopic living bacteria that can contaminate almost any food type.

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  Caves Reveal Evolution of Ancient Microbes

  Scientists explore caves to study the Earth’s history, as they dream of traveling back in time. In this case, to the Precambrian.

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  Complexity of Spit Revealed

  A new study tries to clean up the mysteries around saliva, including the microbes that live in it and why we each have a salivary signature.

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  Odd Life Found in Great Lakes

  Extreme environment-loving life forms found in sinkholes of Lake Huron.

• Cheese Is Grosser Than Thought

  Behind the heavenly taste and texture of cheese is a heap of bacteria, mammal stomach lining, pesticides and pure fat.

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  Human Hair Makes Good Fertilizer

  Study finds human hair can work as fertilizer for slow-growing plants.