He is working with microbiologists from the University of Colorado, US, on ways to use ciliates for real DNA computing.

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For generations, microbiologists had known that single-celled bacteria, fungi and algae survive thanks to proteins that respond to visible light.

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Hazel Barton is a rare bird among medical microbiologists, more than likely the only one with a map of South Dakota's Wind Cave tattooed on her left biceps.

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There are vaccines for other meningococcus strains, but a vaccine for the group B strains had been eluding microbiologists because their surface sugars are identical to human ones.

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When there is a risk of serious or unusual infection, doctors should inform clinical microbiologists that patients are known drug users and discuss what specimens should be taken.

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None of the senior Medical Microbiologists that Professor Spratt consulted during an independent review believed that the inhalation of even a million BG spores constituted any significant threat to health.

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Such is the ravenous hunger of the funds that dominate the stock market to solicit the brainiest kids before they can go onto become microbiologists, professors of medicine, musicians Rhodes Scholars, or neuro-scientists.

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The microbe, discovered by microbiologists from the University of Massachusetts at the Quabbin Reservoir in western Massachusetts, digests and ferments a wide variety of feedstocks, including corn stover, corn cobs, switchgrass, and sugar cane bagasse.

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The agency is using toxicologists, epidemiologists, microbiologists, forensic chemists and veterinary researchers to investigate whether the treats could be causing dogs to suffer Fanconi syndrome, a kidney disease that can cause the organ to shut down.

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