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CRISPR is promising to tackle antimicrobial resistance - but remember bacteria can fight back
Experts are looking to use the Nobel winning technology to target resistance genes and make bacteria sensitive to first line antibiotics again; but the bacteria have ways to fight back.
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Single-celled protists in the guts of animals thrive without the ‘powerhouse of the cell’
Almost all eukaryotic organisms, from plants and animals to fungi, can’t survive without mitochondria – the ’powerhouses of the cell’, which generate chemical energy using oxygen. Termites However, a new study by Lukáš Novák and Vladimír Hampl of Charles University, published in the journal PLOS Genetics, finds ...