[ad_1] The desert of Atacama. (Photo by A. Duarte / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0) CHILE: Over the past three years, the Atacama Desert has recorded rains that it has not known …
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[ad_1] Image Source: The Scripps Research Institute By conducting a study on one of the modified organisms, a unicellular organism lacking organelles and nuclei, called bacterium, whose genome is composed of both …
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[ad_1] A genetically modified yeast containing an endosymbiotic bacterium. Credit: Scripps Research Scientists at Scripps Research and their collaborators have created microorganisms that may recapitulate key features of organisms thought to have …
Read More »About 100 species of microorganisms living on ISS, eroding spacecraft
[ad_1] About 100 species of various microorganisms live aboard the International Space Station (ISS), degrading plastic and metal the spacecraft is made of and endangering the crew's health, Valery Bogomolov, Deputy Director …
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