It’s something you learn in high school – there are two basic approaches to cellular life – prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) and…
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Biology Bacterium excluded from the Eukaryote Club
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Conference Open for microbiology: PLOS Biology at ASM 2013
As we have discussed in previous posts, PLOS Biology believes strongly that we are Open for a Reason; one of our key…
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Biology Playing Roulette with Seven Sexes
Have you ever watched “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”? There are these seven brothers and, well you get the idea… But that…
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Biology Are We Quorate Yet? Return to Bug Signalling
You’re at a cheesy disco – it’s a large room, the lights are down, the music’s loud. But no one’s dancing. Because…
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Conference Calling all researchers in tuberculosis
Editors are sometimes asked while out and about in the community, why it is that we attend conferences. Most folk presume we’re…
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Bioinformatics Bacterial Evolution – The Movie
Recent advances in sequencing technology have brought us the complexity of microbial metagenomes from oceans, soils and guts. These massive datasets of…