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Provided by Cheng Li The new cable bacteria have rod-shaped cells connected in a line, with a shared outer membrane, forming filaments that can reach several centimeters in length. Though ...

Scientists have identified a novel species of bacteria that acts as electrical wiring, potentially ushering in a new era of bioelectronic devices for use in medicine, industry, food safety ...

With foodborne botulism and Clostridium perfringens, the spores must germinate and vegetative bacteria multiply in the food which, when eaten, results in foodborne illness. However, botulism is ...

Clostridium botulinum is a bacterium that ... you leave the door open for the bacteria to produce the toxin, explains McBride. These days, incidences of foodborne botulism linked to commercially ...

He is a native English speaker. On the slope of a Utah mountain, lives the world's oldest living organism. It has lived there for thousands of years, living in harmony with the natural world ...

Pando, a quaking aspen and one of the world's oldest and largest organisms. Photo: J Zapell / Wikimedia Commons A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single ...

Clostridium perfringens has been confirmed ... reheating and hot holding of the meat is consistent with how toxins from the bacteria grow and cause illness. “The time between eating the food ...

perkinsii), an ancestral species of protist. This unicellular organism separated from the animal evolutionary line more than a billion years ago, offering valuable insight into the mechanisms that ...

Clostridium perfringens is a spore-forming bacteria that can function without oxygen (anaerobic bacteria). These gram-positive bacteria are typically found in human and animal intestines.

A new study looks at how natural selection works more subtly than previously believed while an organism is in a stable environment. Insights into this evolutionary mechanism could help scientists ...

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