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more about #madbiology more comments → ♠ Final ♠: This friends is Kevin Randleman after his MRSA infection. If you don't want staph then wash. If you go to the gym you're likely to pick it up from t... more » Bogdan Coman: We should be mindful of bacteria. It's the only culture some people have. more » DraconisXC: Someday soon bacteria are just gonna hop off the toilet seat and punch you right in the face, protective paper cover or no. more » AmishJohn: I'm not worrying until they get to Gamma Rays. more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: To a large extent, your concerns about plasma creating super bugs are not valid, just as concerns that detergent based antimicrobial hand soaps causin... more » J_Frank_Parnell: See post RE: Biotech Apocolypse more » sicboi: if their sexual reproductive systems have "just about disappeared", then they aren't female anymore are they? The species has become asexual. Interest... more » Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Oh, someone named Himler (one M isn't fooling anyone) is discussing genetic isolation, that'll end well. more » Multibocks: So male ants that wander into this colony experience death by SNU SNU? more » Ender15: Do they have a plan? more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: Maybe nitpicky, but isn't this more parthenogenesis than cloning? more » Gann: Without sexual reproduction this is an evolutionary dead end, no? more » NotChoinski: Amazonian meaning from the South American Rainforest or completely matriarchal? Or Both? I've been to bars completely full of male clones. more » 浴武士!!!! I'd like to start a manga like that: kinda like feminists eh? HWHAHWAHWHAWHHAWAH more » -
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Could New Therapies For Drug-Resistant Staph Help To Breed Even Worse Mutant Super-Bacteria?
Antibiotic-resistant staph bugs are a terrifying prospect: a potentially deadly skin infection that resists most traditional treatments. But now, researchers think they've found a weapon against MRSA: hitting it with low-temperature plasma. More » -
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Scientists Discover All-Female Ant Species that Reproduces by Cloning
A group of Amazonian ants have evolved an extremely unusual social system: They are all female and reproduce via cloning. Though their sexual organs have virtually disappeared, they have also gained some extraordinary abilities. More »
