TB bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to treatments—more than 250,000 deaths in 2015 from drug-resistant infections
"The activity of microorganisms in soil has the potential to alleviate or worsen climate change, so we need to form predictions regarding their activities,” researcher says
As the saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining. Even when that cloud is 109,000 metric tons of methane
Secrets in the soil
Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars
Understanding more about the interactions between microbial communities could help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle
Berkeley Lab scientists image cell-to-cell connections between soil microbes.
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