For all of its planetary missions, NASA has established a
principle of planetary protection to avoid contaminating
potentially habitable worlds with microbes from Earth. By
destroying itself, Juno will eliminate any chance of crashing
into one of Jupiter's moons and allowing microbial stowaways ...
Read More Bacteria infecting parasitic worms that cause river
blindness and elephantiasis in people, as well as heart worms in
dogs, lead to bigger egg batches in some infected insects.
Wolbachia bacteria are widespread parasites, infecting both
insects and nematode worms. Infected worms are linked to... Read
More Researchers announced Wednesday that they've managed to
reconstruct the genome of the Black Death, the illness that
wiped out around half of Europe's population in just a few years
in the mid-1300s. Ray Suarez discusses the developments with
geneticist Hendrick Poinar of McMaster University. ... Read More
Scientists from California and Hong Kong genetically engineered
bacterial cells so that they spontane