In the face of rising drug resistance, UC San Diego scientists are on a voyage to find never-studied bacteria.
Motherboard |
Searching the deep sea for new antibiotics
NPR |
Would You Eat Michael Pollan Microbe Cheese?
Making your own cheese and yogurt is all the rage. Now a UCLA scientist has taken the DIY craze to an entirely new level: making cheeses using the microcritters on human skin.
Sacramento Bee |
Students work to engineer plastic-degrading bacteria
Young researchers have spent the summer at UC Davis\' Genome Center working on what they hope will one day be the answer to cleaning up the world\'s landfills.