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Designing highways the slime mould way
Slime moulds mimic real road networks between oat-flake "cities" 鈥� and make suggestions of their own
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CFS patients in UK show no signs of suspect virus
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Too-dilute disinfectant boosts bacteria resistance
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Pong-ology: Sniffing out a cure for iffy whiffs
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Computer-aided design for life itself
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Masterworks in Petri dishes
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‘Simple’ bacterium shows surprising complexity
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Friendly bacteria keep your skin’s defences in check
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Vaccine quest boosted by HIV that infects monkeys
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Common cold may hold off swine flu
This intriguing idea would explain why swine flu's autumn wave has been slow to take off in some countries and point to new ways to fight flu
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Water purifiers for the poor fail to prove their worth
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Human microbes are picky about neighbourhoods on body
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Timeline: The secret history of swine flu
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Microbes’ globe-trotting has made them less diverse
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