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Soft robot with a mouth and gut can forage for its own food
The robot slurps biomatter from its environment to be entirely self-sufficient, and could one day be used in aquatic applications such as ocean clean-up
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Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses
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These are the foods you should eat if you want less smelly farts
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Life
Cheese-making led to gene-swapping orgy of bacterial bestiality
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Artificial killer cells mimic life as they wipe out opponents
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Triple-whammy drug kills parasites that make 20 million sick
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Self-destructing bacteria are engineered to kill cancer cells
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Lung bacteria’s sense of touch tells them when to turn nasty
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Bacteria ‘gardeners’ farm algae to harvest when food runs out
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Gut bacteria spotted eating brain chemicals for the first time
The discovery of gut bacteria that need the calming chemical GABA to survive could explain why bacteria seem to influence our mood
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Virtual reality lets you stroll around a breast cancer cell
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Life
Rip up the rule book and let NASA’s Mars rover check ‘life’ zone
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New life form discovered in saliva is linked to human disease
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Microbial mass extinctions were kicked off by human evolution
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