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Bacteria could protect old paintings from pigment-eating microbes

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Bacteria could protect old paintings from pigment-eating microbes

The microbiome of a 400-year-old painting includes bacteria and fungi that eat pigments but a treatment with other microbes can protect the painting from damage

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Megan Rossi: Gut health - the secret to happiness?

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Megan Rossi: Gut health - the secret to happiness?

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voles huddling together

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Huddling for warmth gives animals a more efficient gut microbiome

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ocean drilling

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75-million-year old ocean microbes live forever on almost zero energy

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woman drinking probiotic

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Probiotics are mostly useless and can actually hurt you

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Bacteria can be used to turn type A blood into universal type O

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Bacteria can be used to turn type A blood into universal type O

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glasses of wine artwork

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Banana-y bread and onion beer: How yeast can trick our tastebuds

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A newborn baby

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How our bodies are rapidly colonised by bacteria when we're born

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First evidence that gut bacteria help wire young brains

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First evidence that gut bacteria help wire young brains

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These eerie rock towers may have been built by microorganisms

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These eerie rock towers may have been built by microorganisms

Rock “chimneys” twice as tall as a person that tower above a lake in California may have been built, in part, by microorganisms

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Herpes viruses in the brain linked to Alzheimer’s disease

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A huge number of mystery microbes are living on your skin

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Bacteria may survive temperatures hot enough to melt lead

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Parkinson’s disease may be caused by virus that kills gut bugs

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