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AskMen.com February 27, 2014 Patrick Owen	They've Discovered Something That Might Cure Obesity. But It's Seriously Gross. The eternal battle between good and bad bacteria in your gut is greatly affected by your diet, sleep, stress levels, and general health.
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Science News May 20, 2006 Ben Harder	Bacteria Can Keep Their Kin in Check Products containing beneficial bacteria might help people fight the ill effects of some gut microbes in diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome.
Science News May 28, 2005 Janet Raloff	The Case of the Suspicious Hamsters With a new report, rodents join the list of pets with a demonstrated ability to host and spread Salmonella.
Science News March 18, 2006 Janet Raloff	Protozoa Aid Food-Poisoning Germs Seemingly innocent microorganisms may have harmful consequences: Ubiquitous waterborne protozoa appear capable of aiding the survival of several types of bacteria responsible for gut-wrenching food poisoning.
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Technology Research News July 27, 2005	Bacteria drive biochip sensor Researchers are working to connect living cells to computer chips to gain the best of both worlds.
Science News July 28, 2007 Janet Raloff	A Gut Feeling about Coffee People's gut microbes digest fiber from coffee in a fermentation process, making beneficial compounds.
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Chemistry World February 19, 2013 Ian Farrell	Analyzing bacterial metabolites A mass-spectrometry technique that can characterize and spatially resolve the metabolites produced by bacteria could lead to a better understanding of how different microbes interact with each other, and how their chemistry could be harnessed industrially.
Chemistry World February 13, 2015 Tim Wogan	GM bacteria convert solar energy to liquid fuels A new scheme for storing the energy from photovoltaic cells, in which genetically modified bacteria reduce carbon dioxide to liquid fuels with hydrogen from water-splitting, has been proposed and partially demonstrated.
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Science News August 18, 2001 Janet Raloff	Germ-Fighting Germs Plants and animals aren't the only things that get sick. Even pathogenic microbes can succumb to infections. Federal plant pathologists are now looking to capitalize on that phenomenon as a strategy to fight off food poisoning...
Geotimes May 2004 Naomi Lubick	Mineral-Making Microbes For the first time, researchers have found direct evidence that microbes can create templates for unique mineral growth. The discovery could inspire new avenues for materials research, as well as for the search for evidence of life on Earth and other planets.
Chemistry World February 24, 2010 Hayley Birch	Marine microbes wired up A new study provides evidence for the existence of naturally occurring electric circuits orchestrated by marine bacteria.
Chemistry World May 6, 2011 Holly Sheahan	Zinc complexes as antimicrobial wound dressings Scientists in the UK have made metal-containing thin films that can be incorporated into wound dressings or on surfaces to kill microbes and bacteria in hospitals.
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Fast Company February 2015 Jon Gertner	What's Lurking In Your Microbiome? Possibly, a Cure for Disease Second Genome is a small company that focuses on the microbiome: the trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that people carry around with them from birth until death.
Mother Jones December 2000 Edwin Dobb	Growing Resistance Is agribusiness squandering one of medicine's most potent weapons?
Chemistry World August 29, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Bacteria Put New Spin on Micromotors Researchers have used motile bacteria to rotate a microscopic motor made from silicon. The team believes that their system -- fuelled by glucose -- is the first micromechanical device to integrate inorganic materials with living bacteria.
Chemistry World October 8, 2013 David Bradley	3D printing bacteria Jason Shear and colleagues at the University of Texas, US, have developed a 3D printing technique that lets them 'construct' defined bacterial communities so that short-range chemical communications and physical interactions between bacteria can be investigated more systematically than ever before.
Chemistry World May 29, 2014 Carla Pegoraro	Dual warhead kills and disarms bacteria A compound that kills bacteria and cleaves their DNA to prevent them passing on drug-resistant genes has been designed by researchers in India.
Food Engineering August 3, 2009	Lab provides growth measurement of micro-organisms Iowa State University's Discovery Lab allows researchers to test various plant, microbial or animal sources to determine whether they have antimicrobial or prebiotic properties.
Chemistry World March 24, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Bacteria altered to suppress hunger faces long road to clinic A US-based research team has programmed gut bacteria to produce a hunger-suppressing molecule that has been shown to aid weight loss in mice. However, there are still significant challenges ahead.
Chemistry World July 27, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Sticky nanotubes detect bacteria in seconds Sticky nanotubes that trap bacteria like flypaper can be used to identify bacterial infections in seconds rather than days, report Spanish chemists.
Chemistry World April 16, 2009 Jon Cartwright	Isolated microbes survive for millions of years Researchers in the US and the UK have found microbes in the Antarctic that appear to have survived in isolation, without sunlight or new supplies of nutrients, for more than a million years.
Chemistry World August 28, 2007 Tom Westgate	Repairing DNA Could Let Frozen Bacteria Survive for Millennia An international team of scientists believe they have strong evidence that bacteria trapped in permafrost are able to survive for hundreds of thousands of years by repairing their DNA.
Salon.com May 19, 2000 Mary Roach	Ladies who spray If you sprinkle when you tinkle, cut it out!
Chemistry World September 11, 2013 Andria Nicodemou	Bacteria incriminated by their odor Researchers in Taiwan and the US have developed a device that uses the volatile organic compounds released by bacteria to identify the bacteria as they are cultured.
Chemistry World August 27, 2014 Hayley Simon	Ionic liquids join battle against antibiotic resistance US researchers have used ionic liquids -- organic salts that are liquid at room temperature -- to disrupt bacterial biofilms and deliver antibiotics through the skin's outer layer.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Germ Cesspools Acknowledging these filthy microbial hangouts, and following some suggested precautionary measures might just keep you a tad healthier and away from winter sicknesses.
Geotimes July 2007 Megan Sever	La Brea Yields Oil-Eating Bacteria Fossils are not the only surprises hidden in the Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, Calif. Researchers have recently discovered entire new families of bacteria happily living in the toxic asphalt.
Chemistry World November 6, 2012 Elinor Hughes	Helping good bacteria reach their target Most probiotic bacteria that are added to foods, such as yoghurt, to aid the digestive system are not reaching their intended target in the intestine. Now, UK scientists have come up with a coating to overcome this problem.