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Bacteria can be coaxed into making the toughest kind of spider silk

Author: Jeremy Rehm / Source: Science News Bacteria are helping to make engineered silk that rivals the strength and stretchiness of a spider’s stiff dragline silk, the type from which the arachnids dangle. Pound for pound, dragline silk is stronger and tougher than steel. Engineers have tried
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A mashup of yeast and E. coli shows how mitochondria might have evolved

Author: Tina Hesman Saey / Source: Science News Yeast intentionally stuffed with bacteria may teach scientists something about the origins of cells’ powerhouses. Cellular power-generating organelles, called mitochondria, are thought to have once been bacteria captured by archaea, single-celled
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A new antibiotic uses sneaky tactics to kill drug-resistant superbugs

Author: Laurel Hamers / Source: Science News Drug-resistant bacteria have a new challenger. A new molecule can kill deadly strains of common bacteria, such as Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumonia, that are resistant to most existing antibiotics. The drug works differently from currently
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Your blood type might make you more likely to get traveler’s diarrhea

Author: Rachel Ehrenberg / Source: Science News E. coli has a type and it isn’t pretty. The bacterium is more likely to cause severe diarrhea in people with type A blood. An illness-causing strain of E. coli secretes a protein that gloms onto the sugar molecules that decorate type A blood cells,
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The secret to icky, sticky bacterial biofilms lies in the microbes’ cellulose

Author: Laurel Hamers / Source: Science News To build resilient colonies, bacteria make a surprising tweak to a common substance found in cells. A biochemical addition to the cellulose produced by E. coli and other species of bacteria lets them create colonies that are resistant to disruption,
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